Jewish Ethics as Dialogue: Using Spiritual Language to Re-Imagine a Better World »

Moses Pava is the Alvin Einbender Professorial Chair in Business Ethics at the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University.

This book argues that Jewish values are not fixed propositions embedded in written form that can be easily handed off from one generation to the next. Jewish values are necessarily the product of contemporary Jewish minds.

Preface ix

Part I Jewish Ethics as Dialogue

1 The Case for Dialogue 3

2 Increasing Moral Capital through Moral Imagination 19

3 The Art of Ethical Dialogue 35

Part II Spirituality and Dialogue in the Contemporary World

4 Intelligent Spirituality in Business 59

5 Spirituality in (and out) of the Classroom 91

6 Listening to the Anxious Atheists 107

Part III Applications of Jewish Ethics as Dialogue

7 Beyond the Flat World Metaphor 137

8 Dialogue as a Restraint on Wealth 147

9 The Limits of Dialogue 155

Appendix: An Invitation to Dialogue 167

Notes 181

Bibliography 183

Index 189