Representations of Rationality and Morality in the Judaic Tradition
Representations of Rationality and Morality in the Judaic Tradition

Summary/Abstract: Just as God unconceals himself to human beings through the medium of morality and rationality, human beings unconceal themselves to the world in the same way, i.e. as rational and moral beings. This is why human beings appear to be beings that are supposedly superior to other earthly existents, since they are detached from them by the fact that they are rational and moral, where the latter is a quality that gives the former a certain sense of direction. In other words, morality anticipates rationality which brings us very close to the views of Levinas, whose philosophy is built on the foundation that ethics serves as the soil of metaphysics. Nevertheless, both morality and rationality help the self to overcome the gap separating it from other existents, yet it is morality that functions as the self’s primordial condition.

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