ABSTRACT
David Hartman, one of the leading religious thinkers of the authors' time, is also the authors' most important Jewish public philosopher. In his teachings and writings, and in the remarkable center of learning he founded in Jerusalem, the Shalom Hartman Institute, he has fostered a rich encounter between the Jewish tradition and modern moral and political philosophy. Much of Hartman's work is devoted to showing that it is possible to reconcile halakhic Judaism with modern pluralism. Hartman argues for two forms of pluralism—one interpretive, the other ethical. Hartman also defends a more far-reaching, ethical pluralism that takes seriously the ethical systems of other faiths, and of secular morality. Although Hartman has not addressed the questions directly, his religious anthropology provides a fruitful way of thinking about them, and a language in which to do so. The Promethean spirit of Soloveitchik's religious anthropology would seem to sanction a boundless human dominion over nature.
