The humanistic science of Jewry researches into the recorded history, contemporary currents and foreseeable future of Jewish peoplehood, human religious culture and monotheist ethics by applying the empirical rationalist method. Judaism as humanistic (human-centered) science is the historical and empirical advancement of the national, ethnical, religious and cultural experiences of Jewry in the space-time horizon of an over 4000-years-project. Special methodical attention is given to the every-day-life interplay of ethics and economics as well as to the contra-forces of authority and liberty; the Jewish underground tradition or social dialogic of ethical thought and action is identified as the ‘eternal’ essence of the humanistic spirit that could not be dissolved or destroyed by the ‘brutish wheel of history’ and remains a paradoxical enigma in anthropological terms, but despite all irrational enmity and inhumanity it may come as the great Hebrew sages predicted: the end will bear witness of the beginning.
Humanistic science; Judaism; ethics; economics; empirical rationalist method; dialogic; little big history