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Homosexuality, Marriage and Society
The question of same-sex vs traditional marriage is part of a larger argument - between two world-views of the human being and society - which branches into important subsidiary questions. Is the human being primarily a physical being, whose polymorphous impulses determine changing moral identities - or the possessor of a conscience or soul, with an objective moral template, that arbitrates between impulses? On homosexuality as a "variant" sexuality with a claim to marriage: does "homosexual" define a person; or is homosexuality something other than the essence of the person, impacting it from outer physical, psychological or cultural sources? With regard to children and marriage: is "love" ...
Aesthetics and the Divine
Rabbi Dr Shimon Cowen has assembled this title as the basis of a course on Judaism and aesthetics. It encompasses both pieces addressing the theory of this subject as well as analysis of examples of the work of major Australian Jewish artists - in painting (Victor Majzner), writing (Richard Freadman) and music (Felix Werder). He also has a segment addressed to practical issues of the pedagogy, the teaching and encouragement of the arts, informed by traditional Judaism.
A POPULISM OF THE SPIRIT - FURTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICS AND UNIVERSAL ETHICS
A Populism of the Spirit - Further Essays on Politics and Universal Ethics is a sequel to Shimon Cowen's Politics and Universal Ethics, which found strong resonance with politicians from both sides of politics who hosted its launches in all six State Legislatures of Australia. Both books explore general questions for the idea of universal ethics, their application to contemporary political issues and the features of contemporary culture which challenge them. The ideal espoused in these books is that diverse political temperaments within individual societies, and diverse national cultures within world society, can together constitute a civilization, harmonious and luminous because it reflects...
The Practice of Universal Ethics
"This work presents the content of the Biblical ethical covenant between humanity and its Creator. This covenant is known as the Seven Laws of the descendants of Noah, the survivor of the Flood and ancestor of humanity. The Noahide laws stand at the root of the great world religions and constituted the ethical code by which Abraham lived. This code was later definitively reiterated at Mount Sinai as part of the revelation around the Ten Commandments. In the secularized zones of contemporary society these values offer a much needed and much sought “moral compass” in an often felt cultural void and drift. Indeed in 1991, in the preamble to a Bill establishing "Education Day, USA", the foundational position of the Noahide laws was affirmed by the US Congress which termed them the moral "bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization"--Back cover.
The Theory and Practice of Universal Ethics
The United States Congress President in 1991 endorsed a set of seven universal ethical principles, known as the Noahide Laws, as the "bedrock of society since the dawn of civilization" and as values "upon which our great nation was founded." Associated with the name of Noah, with whom this moral code was completed, practised by Abraham and reiterated at Sinai, these principles constitute the root ethical code of humanity. At a time of great moral and social drift, when both individuals and legislators seek an objective and universal moral compass, these timeless laws have a special relevance and a unifying resonance over different cultures, societies and traditions.The first part of this boo...
The Rediscovery of the Human
Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning sold over 10 million copies and was translated into over 30 languages and was deemed by a survey of the Library of Congress one of "the ten most influential books in America". This volume introduces and presents translations of a number of important but less well-known writings by Viktor Frankl, translated from the original German, in which he forthrightly relates psychology to religious concepts. These cast a strong, new light on the generally received understanding of Frankl's contribution to psychology - "logotherapy" - and its relationship to the soul and universal ethics.
The Rediscovery of the Human
Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning sold over 10 million copies and was translated into over 30 languages and was deemed by a survey of the Library of Congress one of “the ten most influential books in America”. This volume introduces and presents translations of a number of important but less well-known writings by Viktor Frankl, translated from the original German, in which he forthrightly relates psychology to religious concepts. These cast a strong, new light on the generally received understanding of Frankl’s contribution to psychology – “logotherapy” – and its relationship to the soul and universal ethics.
