“ On one level, [Leon Roth] says, “Jewish philosophy” is a racist idea; there cannot be Jewish philosophy any more than there can be a “Jewish economics” (a.k.a. cheating) or a “Jewish mathematics” (a.k.a. number fiddling). On a deeper level, however, there is a Jewish philosophy, namely, the reflective discussion of Judaism’s profound answers to life’s great problems….By the end of the book it is clear that, for him, Judaism is not simply a philosophical religion, nor merely a philosophy among other philosophies: it is philosophy itself. The task of Judaism, in Roth’s understanding, is the task of philosophy.
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