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I attempt to create an argument based on Bryan Frances's argument of live skepticism, but the foc... more I attempt to create an argument based on Bryan Frances's argument of live skepticism, but the focus and conclusion is about peer disagreement in situations where different interpretations of equal merit are reached. My test case is the disagreement in Qumranic studies over the identity of the Jewish sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Mentor: Aaron Segal
ushered in a new era of Jewish thought when he published Jerusalem in 1783. Problems of modernism... more ushered in a new era of Jewish thought when he published Jerusalem in 1783. Problems of modernism and Judaism and of living in a non-Jewish world while still maintaining a Jewish identity began to be discussed. Yet he did not see the Jewish emancipation in which these issues fully arose. His thought, used by Reform, Orthodox, and secular Jews alike, became the bedrock of Jewish thought for Jews who lived in socio-political reality he himself never saw. Samson Raphael Hirsch, on the other hand, did. He lived in emancipated Germany, and like his fellow Jews, he used Mendelssohn"s thought to create a new Weltanschauung that responds to the sociopolitical reality he lived in. Hirsch highly regarded Mendelssohn and in fact, grouped Mendelssohn together with Maimonides when he used both Maimonides and Mendelssohn to bolster his defense of traditional Halakha. 1 An article written by his son Isaac Hirsch, which his father Samson Raphael Hirsch must have approved, characterized Mendelssohn as one of the noblest sons of Israel who had taken his place among the righteous and honest men in heaven. 2 Hirsch revered Mendelssohn.
This belief can best be stated in the words of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: "How t... more This belief can best be stated in the words of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: "How things are in the world is a matter of complete indifference for what is higher. God does not reveal himself in the world." iii There are two points being made in his statement: 1) there exists a God; 2) He in no way relates to this world.
I attempt to create an argument based on Bryan Frances's argument of live skepticism, but the foc... more I attempt to create an argument based on Bryan Frances's argument of live skepticism, but the focus and conclusion is about peer disagreement in situations where different interpretations of equal merit are reached. My test case is the disagreement in Qumranic studies over the identity of the Jewish sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Mentor: Aaron Segal
ushered in a new era of Jewish thought when he published Jerusalem in 1783. Problems of modernism... more ushered in a new era of Jewish thought when he published Jerusalem in 1783. Problems of modernism and Judaism and of living in a non-Jewish world while still maintaining a Jewish identity began to be discussed. Yet he did not see the Jewish emancipation in which these issues fully arose. His thought, used by Reform, Orthodox, and secular Jews alike, became the bedrock of Jewish thought for Jews who lived in socio-political reality he himself never saw. Samson Raphael Hirsch, on the other hand, did. He lived in emancipated Germany, and like his fellow Jews, he used Mendelssohn"s thought to create a new Weltanschauung that responds to the sociopolitical reality he lived in. Hirsch highly regarded Mendelssohn and in fact, grouped Mendelssohn together with Maimonides when he used both Maimonides and Mendelssohn to bolster his defense of traditional Halakha. 1 An article written by his son Isaac Hirsch, which his father Samson Raphael Hirsch must have approved, characterized Mendelssohn as one of the noblest sons of Israel who had taken his place among the righteous and honest men in heaven. 2 Hirsch revered Mendelssohn.
This belief can best be stated in the words of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: "How t... more This belief can best be stated in the words of the famous philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: "How things are in the world is a matter of complete indifference for what is higher. God does not reveal himself in the world." iii There are two points being made in his statement: 1) there exists a God; 2) He in no way relates to this world.