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Showing posts with label Jewish ethics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jewish ethics. Show all posts
Monday, September 29, 2025

Teshuvah as a solution to the Determinism/Free Will debate

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We are now in the Ten Days of Repentance, when Jews prepare for Yom Kippur through self-examination, apology, repair, and teshuvah -  repent...
Sunday, September 21, 2025

Can a Jewish ethical framework revolutionize psychological therapy?

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I saw an article on how " most therapy is trash ." I cannot vouch for the article, but it made me think - how would therapy work u...
Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Rabbi Eric Yoffie embraces Greek virtues, not Jewish values, in discussing Zohran Mamdani

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Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President Emeritus of the Union for Reform Judaism, writes in Haaretz: Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New Yo...
Monday, August 25, 2025

What I learned from simulating a Gaza-like situation on AI

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Over the past day I started using AI to simulate how different ethical philosophies would interact with my AskHillel/Secular Covenantalism m...
Wednesday, August 06, 2025

A way to fix the social media hate problem - without violating free speech

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Earlier today I saw an interview on Quillette with Dr. Andre Oboler, the CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute, about online hate and...

Derechological Jurisprudence: A New Framework for Law and Moral Judgment

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For most of us, "the law" feels like a settled thing. It's in multivolume thick books, enforced by robed figures, and seems to...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Educational philosophy is a mess. A values-based curriculum could fix it.

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Yesterday I wrote about an article in Educational Philosophy and Theory in which a group of academics presented different essays that all ...

EoZ interviewed by A Philosophical Jew (video)

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I had a fun discussion with A Philosophical Jew about my AskHillel Jewish ethics AI project on his podcast. Check it out!
Wednesday, July 30, 2025

The Ethical Formula: Capacity, Proximity, and Covenant in Determining Obligation

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The more I work on the AskHillel ethical framework, the better it gets.  After my last essay on how rights are a subset of values, I was won...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Resolving the "Rights" vs. "Duties" Philosophical Problem

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For centuries, moral and political philosophy has been entangled in the tension between rights and duties.  On one side stand advocates of r...