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Lenn Evan Goodman (born 1944) is an American Jewish philosopher. His philosophy, particularly his constructive work, draws from classical and medieval sources as well as religious texts. [ 1 ] Goodman is also an academic, scholar, and a historian with research interest in metaphysics , ethics , and Jewish philosophy .
The Good Society is an academic journal. It is published twice a year by the Penn State University Press on behalf of The Committee for the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS). Between 1991 and 1995, the journal went by the name The Newsletter of PEGS .
Good Society may refer to: The Good Society , an academic journal published by the Penn State University Press since 1991 Good Society (game) , an indie role-playing game based on the novels of Jane Austen
An English translation by Lenn E. Goodman was published in 1978. [31] A critical edition of the Arabic by Goodman and Richard McGregor was published by Oxford University Press in 2009. [32] It included a 250-page-long English translation with annotations, [24] which was republished separately in 2012. [32]
Allegra Goodman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Hawaii. [1] The daughter of Lenn and Madeleine Goodman, [2] she was brought up as a Conservative Jew. [3] Her mother, who died in 1996, was a professor of genetics and women's studies, then assistant vice president at the University of Hawaii at Manoa for many years, before moving on to Vanderbilt University in the 1990s. [4]
Goodman discusses the problems of living in a society that represses individual instinct through coercion. He suggests that individuals resist such conditions by reclaiming their natural instincts and initiative, and by "drawing the line", an ideological delineation beyond which an individual should refuse to conform or cooperate with social ...
Lenn Goodman "Value and the Dynamics of Being" 2008: Joseph Grange "The Generosity of the Good" 2009: Donald Verene "Metaphysics and the Origin of Culture" 2010: Dan Dahlstrom "Being and Negation" 2011: Thomas R. Flynn "Whatever Happened to Humanism? Reconciling the Being of Language and the Being of Man" 2012: Edward Halper "Reason and the ...
Ibn Tufayl's Hayy ibn Yaqzān: a philosophical tale, translated with introduction and notes by Lenn Evan Goodman. New York: Twayne, 1972. The journey of the soul: the story of Hai bin Yaqzan, as told by Abu Bakr Muhammad bin Tufail, a new translation by Riad Kocache. London: Octagon, 1982.