{ "item_title" : "Humanity", "item_author" : [" Yechiel Gilboa "], "item_description" : "Two thousand years ago, a Jew in Jerusalem and a Confucian in Beijing, living thousands of miles apart and knowing nothing of each other's heritage, arrived, each in his own way, at the very same insights about humility, respect for others, and moderation. How? What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow; this is the whole Torah. So answered Hillel the Elder to the would-be convert who asked to be taught the entire Torah while standing on one foot. Thousands of miles and hundreds of years away, Confucius answered his disciple in almost exactly the same words: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. This book traces an improbable encounter between two of the oldest and richest moral traditions in human history, the Jewish and the Confucian. It uncovers surprising parallels between Pirkei Avot and the Analects, between the Middle Way of Maimonides and the Middle Way of Confucius, and between the classics of Jewish moral literature (Chovot HaLevavot, Sefer Hasidim, and Mesillat Yesharim) and the Confucian Four Books. Drawing on a background in the philosophy of science, the author also brings a new methodological angle to the discussion: What can Popper's theory of falsification teach us about the very idea of the Middle Way? And do identical moral insights that developed in parallel, without any historical contact, point to something deeper in human nature itself? The book also tells the remarkable story of the Jewish community of Kaifeng, a forgotten chapter in shared Jewish-Chinese history, in which a Jewish identity and a Confucian social framework coexisted for nearly a thousand years.A journey between two cultures that invites the reader to ask anew: What, in the end, is the humanity we all share? Yechiel Gilboa holds a PhD in the philosophy of science and specializes in the philosophy of technology. He has a background in engineering and management in academia and industry, with a B.Sc. in engineering, a combined M.Sc. in engineering and computer science, and an MBA. He has taught the philosophy of technology as an adjunct lecturer at Sapir Academic College and SCE- Shamoon College of Engineering. His previous books, published in Hebrew by Resling, are Karl Popper and the Philosophy of the Middle Way (2022), The Philosophy of Technology: The Challenges of Science in the High Tech Era (2023), and Rationality in Technology: A Popperian Model (2025). They were also published in English in the United States in 2025.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/047/9798160475820_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "25.00", "online_price" : "25.00", "our_price" : "25.00", "club_price" : "25.00", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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