Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits. Only one course from Religion 380, 387, and 487 may be elected in the same term.

Credits: (3).

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This course aims at developing a framework to give students an understanding of the role played by ethics in the Jewish tradition, in particular the relation between ethics and Jewish law. Such a framework will include components taken from moral philosophy, the philosophy of religion, the philosophy of law, and hermeneutics. The course will open by presenting the well-known Euthyphro Dilemma – does God love x because x is good, or is x good because God loves it? – and will then proceed to a critical discussion of divine command theories of morality. The idea that religion overrides morality, as expressed, for example, by Kierkegård, will then be introduced and discussed. After completing the general philosophical introduction, various Jewish sources will be presented to illustrate the role played by morality in shaping Jewish law (halakha). Finally, an hermeneutic model for justifying this role will be suggested.

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Rel. 468/Class. Civ 466. Greek Religion.

Section 001. Instructor(s): Ludwig Koenen (koenen@umich.edu)

Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).

Credits: (3; 2 in the half-term).

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See Classical Civilization 466.001.

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Cost: 1-2

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