Table of Contents

Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1: The Way of the World (I): Truth
2: The Way of the World (II): Ethics
3: Beyond the Way of the World: Worth
4: Divine Teaching
5: Divine Teaching and the Way of the World
Epilogue
Appendix I: Proofs of God
Appendix II: Maimonides on the Evidence for Revelation
Appendix III: Kant on Art and Natural Beauty

About the Author

Samuel Fleischacker is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago. His previous work has focused on Enlightenment moral and political thought, especially that of Kant and Adam Smith, and on conceptions of culture, liberalism and distributive justice. He is the author of A Third Concept of Liberty (Princeton, 1999) and A Short History of Distributive Justice (Harvard, 2004) and editor of Heidegger's Jewish Followers
(Duquesne, 2008). In 2009 his book, On Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, was given the 2009 Joseph B. Gittler Award by the American Philosophical Association, for an outstanding book in the philosophy of social science. Since
2010, he has been Director of Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Reviews

This is an important and rich book: historically informed, provocative, carefully argued and lucidly written.
*C. Stephen Evans, Baylor University*

Fleischackers book is a philosophical tour de force, meriting close attention by all interested in religion.
*David Conway, The Jewish Chronicle*

My heart was warmed: I felt, as I read it, that the world is a better place for the writing of this book.
*David Nichols, New Directions*

Divine Teaching has many merits. First, it powerfully represents Judaism, often overlooked by philosophers of religion. Second, the style of argument is both admirably comprehensive and readable. But the most powerful feature of the book is that it is wise.
*Kevin Vallier, Mind*

In this ambitious volume, Fleischacker provides an intricate and sophisticated argument for rationally justifying one's taking a religious text as divine revelation. The argument is rich in creative thinking and in its breadth. . . Fleischacker presents an extended argument with an expansive sweep, reminding one of how philosophy used to be done in the grand style. The book's architecture is imposing and its argumentation for its main ideas, as I have shown in part, often clever and fresh. This in itself makes reading its 475 pages of text and 58 pages of notes most worthwhile and exciting. . . The book is studded with excellent critical discussions of Kant at important junctures, including Kant's idea of private reasoning, and displays a richness of philosophical exploration. . . Fleischacker's book should become an object of careful discussion serving for progress in philosophy of religion.
*Jerome Gellman, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*

Although a background in philosophy would be helpful, interested readers will find this book fascinating and written with sufficient clarity for the non-specialist.
*David Tesler, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews*