DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-J062-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/soloveitchik-joseph-b-1903-93/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/soloveitchik-joseph-b-1903-93/v-1
Article Summary
Joseph B. Soloveitchik was a Jewish philosopher in the fullest sense. For such thinkers, the task of building intellectual and spiritual bridges between their particular traditions and other cultures permeates and shapes all their philosophic commitments and endeavours.
Medieval philosophers sought to integrate the competing knowledge claims of natural reason and authoritative revelation. Soloveitchik, by contrast, ignored metaphysics and epistemology, focusing instead on refuting the alleged incompatibility between Judaism and the active, human-centred ethos of modernity. His major concern was not the truth of religion but the relevance and significance of religious human types and ideals in modern Western culture.
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