Mordecai Roshwald
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659765 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mordecai Roshwald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mordecai |
| FAMILY NAME | Roshwald |
| SIGNATURE | ROSHWALD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Toleration, Pluralism, and Truth
This paper deals with three guiding principles of contemporary Western civilization. It explores the compatibility of Toleration, Pluralism and Truth, as well as their application to diverse domains of cultural activity and creation. There is no place for toleration, let alone pluralism, in the realm of logic and mathematics. Scientific conclusions allow diverse degrees of certainty. The realm of monotheistic religions excludes pluralism, but nec…
Tolérance, pluralisme et vérité
The Biblical Roots of Democracy
It is customary to look for the roots of modern democracy in ancient Greece - specifically in ancient Athens. Allowance is made, of course, for the difference between the direct democracy of Athens and the representative democracy of the modern era. Similarly, the limitation of the democratic participation in state affairs to the free male citizens of Athens, to the exclusion of slaves, aliens and women, is noted. Yet, barring these differences, …
Les racines bibliques de la démocratie
Perceptions of History. In Pursuit of the Absolute in Passing Time
The way human history has been perceived through the ages - by historians, theologians, philosophers, and ordinary mortals - is itself a topic for a historical study. Our attempt will be more modest, as we shall try to analyse some prominent examples of such perception. Our approach will be illuminated by the notions of the transient and the absolute, as they are attributed, in various ways, to the historical manifestations by historiographers an…
The Judeo-Christian Elements in Hobbes's Leviathan
On the "Introduction" to Leviathan
The Meaning of Faith
The Ethical Concepts of Judaism and of Ancient Greece
The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast some salient, though not always clearly recognized and acknowledged, aspects of the ethical perception characterizing the Judaic and the ancient Greek civilizations. To allow a succint treatment, a topic of this range imposes selectivity which, in turn, involves a subjective judgement in making the choices of representative expressions of these vast cultures. While this limitation is readily ad…
Moses
And I will give you shepherds after mine heart and they shall feed you knowledge and understanding(Jeremiah 3:15)To talk about leadership in our times evokes the spectre of those leaders in the thirties and forties who led their nation to disaster, without any consideration for the cost in human suffering and moral degradation which their course involved. Yet, despite the distasteful association, we talk about the need for leadership in various d…
Politics and Ethics
Marginal Jewish Sects in Israel(I)
As indicated in the title, this study will deal with Jewish sects in Israel, not with Moslem or Christian ones. The restriction is not altogether arbitrary, for while one could beneficially explore other religious sects in modern Israel, both for their own sake and in order to analyse their position in the predominantly Jewish society, it is the exploration of the Jewish sects which, besides dealing with a matter of intrinsic interest, may provid…
Marginal Jewish Sects In Israel (II)
The Samaritans summarize their basic religious beliefs in five tenets:(1) The Lord is the one and only God and there is none beside him.(2) The only prophet is Moses and no other prophet was or will be beside him.(3) The only Holy Book is the ‘Torah’...(4) ...the only Holy place in the world is Mt. Garizim the Blessed Mountain, not Jerusalem...(5) The Day of Judgement of the Lord will be according to the laws of the Old Testament, then every man …
Order and Over-Organization in America
The basic principles of order and efficiency-everybody doing his job and not intruding on others-while devised by Plato for his ideal republic, have been applied in practice to modern systems of industrial production. As this system reached its entelechy in Ford's assembly line, it is not surprising that the United States, where this perfection of the system was accomplished first, has been profoundly impressed by the principles of order and effi…
The Idea of the Promised Land
It is common knowledge that the Jews have shown an unusually persistent emotional attachment to their fatherland, notably when they were exiled and dispersed. The sentiment has found many expressions throughout Jewish history and is too well known to require repeated documentation, but a few examples may remind us of its ardent nature."By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion," opens a well-known Psalm (1…
Patterns of Discovery in the Social Sciences
The Concept of Freedom
Equality and Liberty
On Justice in Society
The Broken Image (Man, Science and Society)
Confusion of Spheres
W HILE THE UNITED STATES of North America are regarded as a part of European civilization, Europeans have repeatedly been startled by American patterns of behaviour which seem to them funny, queer, incomprehensible and even shocking. The mental reaction to such behaviour is often much stronger than in the case of an encounter with Africans or other exotic people, because of the assumption of a wide cultural common denominator of the North Atlanti…
Power and Civilization
Ideology and Society
Political Discipline in a Free Society
San Nicandro, the Story of a Religious Phenomenon
Equality and Liberty
The Broken Image (Man, Science and Society)
Order and Over-Organization in America
The basic principles of order and efficiency-everybody doing his job and not intruding on others-while devised by Plato for his ideal republic, have been applied in practice to modern systems of industrial production. As this system reached its entelechy in Ford's assembly line, it is not surprising that the United States, where this perfection of the system was accomplished first, has been profoundly impressed by the principles of order and effi…
Political Discipline in a Free Society
History as a Social Science, an Essay on the Nature and Purpose of Historical Studies
Marginal Jewish Sects in Israel(I)
As indicated in the title, this study will deal with Jewish sects in Israel, not with Moslem or Christian ones. The restriction is not altogether arbitrary, for while one could beneficially explore other religious sects in modern Israel, both for their own sake and in order to analyse their position in the predominantly Jewish society, it is the exploration of the Jewish sects which, besides dealing with a matter of intrinsic interest, may provid…
Confusion of Spheres
W HILE THE UNITED STATES of North America are regarded as a part of European civilization, Europeans have repeatedly been startled by American patterns of behaviour which seem to them funny, queer, incomprehensible and even shocking. The mental reaction to such behaviour is often much stronger than in the case of an encounter with Africans or other exotic people, because of the assumption of a wide cultural common denominator of the North Atlanti…
Value-Judgments in the Social Sciences
Social Class Structure in a Fluctuating Community
HE purpose of this paper is to analyse some fundamental features of | the social class structure of Israel. Despite the fact that the object t of our inquiry is thus geographically limited, our intention is to stress a certain aspect of the issue, which might be of a more general interest, namely the impact of an unusual social multiplicity and fluctuation on class-stratiIScation. To put the case in a more concrete form: Israel has been -not only…
The Case for Indeterminism
Concept of Freedom
The Institutions of Society
The Concept of Human Rights
San Nicandro, the Story of a Religious Phenomenon
History as a Social Science, an Essay on the Nature and Purpose of Historical Studies
Political Discipline in a Free Society
Power and Civilization
Ideology and Society
The Broken Image (Man, Science and Society)
Confusion of Spheres
W HILE THE UNITED STATES of North America are regarded as a part of European civilization, Europeans have repeatedly been startled by American patterns of behaviour which seem to them funny, queer, incomprehensible and even shocking. The mental reaction to such behaviour is often much stronger than in the case of an encounter with Africans or other exotic people, because of the assumption of a wide cultural common denominator of the North Atlanti…
Equality and Liberty
On Justice in Society
The Concept of Freedom
Patterns of Discovery in the Social Sciences
Politics and Ethics
Marginal Jewish Sects in Israel(I)
As indicated in the title, this study will deal with Jewish sects in Israel, not with Moslem or Christian ones. The restriction is not altogether arbitrary, for while one could beneficially explore other religious sects in modern Israel, both for their own sake and in order to analyse their position in the predominantly Jewish society, it is the exploration of the Jewish sects which, besides dealing with a matter of intrinsic interest, may provid…
Marginal Jewish Sects In Israel (II)
The Samaritans summarize their basic religious beliefs in five tenets:(1) The Lord is the one and only God and there is none beside him.(2) The only prophet is Moses and no other prophet was or will be beside him.(3) The only Holy Book is the ‘Torah’...(4) ...the only Holy place in the world is Mt. Garizim the Blessed Mountain, not Jerusalem...(5) The Day of Judgement of the Lord will be according to the laws of the Old Testament, then every man …
Order and Over-Organization in America
The basic principles of order and efficiency-everybody doing his job and not intruding on others-while devised by Plato for his ideal republic, have been applied in practice to modern systems of industrial production. As this system reached its entelechy in Ford's assembly line, it is not surprising that the United States, where this perfection of the system was accomplished first, has been profoundly impressed by the principles of order and effi…
The Idea of the Promised Land
It is common knowledge that the Jews have shown an unusually persistent emotional attachment to their fatherland, notably when they were exiled and dispersed. The sentiment has found many expressions throughout Jewish history and is too well known to require repeated documentation, but a few examples may remind us of its ardent nature."By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion," opens a well-known Psalm (1…
Moses
And I will give you shepherds after mine heart and they shall feed you knowledge and understanding(Jeremiah 3:15)To talk about leadership in our times evokes the spectre of those leaders in the thirties and forties who led their nation to disaster, without any consideration for the cost in human suffering and moral degradation which their course involved. Yet, despite the distasteful association, we talk about the need for leadership in various d…
The Meaning of Faith
The Ethical Concepts of Judaism and of Ancient Greece
The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast some salient, though not always clearly recognized and acknowledged, aspects of the ethical perception characterizing the Judaic and the ancient Greek civilizations. To allow a succint treatment, a topic of this range imposes selectivity which, in turn, involves a subjective judgement in making the choices of representative expressions of these vast cultures. While this limitation is readily ad…
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