The Decalogue as an ABC of Human Behavior

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Research Article| January 01 2011 The Decalogue as an ABC of Human Behavior Hans Küng Hans Küng Author InformationHans Küng is president of the Global Ethic Foundation in Tübingen, Germany, and professor emeritus of ecumenical theology. Among his many books are Global Responsibility; A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics; and, with Rabbi Homolka, How to Do Good & Avoid Evil. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tikkun (2011) 26 (1): 53. https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2011-1039 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hans Küng; The Decalogue as an ABC of Human Behavior. Tikkun 1 January 2011; 26 (1): 53. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08879982-2011-1039 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsTikkun Search Advanced Search The twenty-fifth anniversary of Tikkun coincides with another anniversary, a very sad one: fifteen years ago Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin was murdered. I would therefore like to offer as my contribution to this twenty-fifth anniversary issue the text of a statement I made in Tel Aviv, right on the place where Rabin was murdered. My statement is part of a TV film on Judaism within my TV series on the World’s Religions (1999).How far modern Judaism still is from the middle way between a religionless secularism and a fanatical fundamentalism became evident in the middle of Tel Aviv, where the Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin was murdered. Here Judaism should have contributed its whole tremendous religious and ethical legacy to this new world era. For there is hardly any other people which has something as substantial and striking to offer as... Copyright © Tikkun magazine2011 You do not currently have access to this content.