At the Center of the Universe: Essays on Western Intellectual Space

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M Plaut, Oct 1, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 179 pages
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This collection of eight essays plus Introduction challenges many of society's most fundamental ideas about the world and ourselves with reasonable, original alternatives. Written from an unapologetically Jewish viewpoint, these essays will be of interest to any intellectually inquisitive person. Is economic gain a universal drive? Is it reasonable to say that the world is the result of chance occurrences? Does humanism understate the value of humanity? These questions and others are considered.


 

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Contents

Notes on an Outmoded World View
8
The Rise of the Science of Economics and the Idea of Gain
33
How to Succeed in Knowing without Really Seeing
59
Reason and Random
77
A Timely Note
91
A Look into Proofs of Gd
108
A Sound Mind
140
The Scientist as Poet the Baal Mesorah as Scientist
153
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About the author (2014)

Mordecai Plaut has a rabbinical degree from Ner Israel Rabbincal College in Pikesville, MD, and graduate degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York. In addition to Torah studies, he has an academic background in mathematics and philosophy. More recently he published a new edition of the classical work Moreh Nevuchim of Maimonides in the Hebrew Ibn Tibbon translation.

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TitleAt the Center of the Universe: Essays on Western Intellectual Space
AuthorMordecai Plaut
PublisherM Plaut, 2014
ISBN0961208805, 9780961208806
Length179 pages
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Literary Criticism / American / General
Literary Criticism / Jewish
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