[Avodah] is there morality outside of the Torah

[Eli Turkel]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Hankman <salman at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Even Issi ben Akiba doesn't prove your point as this was not self taught
> from man's sense of morality (though perhaps it could have been found that
> way), but GIVEN to man as the commands of the sheva mitzvoz benai Noach.

I reread the article and RAL just quotes the first part.
His main argument is from the phrase
"Is there anything that is permitted to a Jew but prohibited to a Gentile?"
and this is used for halachic discussion.

I am being slightly unfair as it is a long article and RAL quotes many sources
and certainly agrees that while halacha incorporates natural morality
nevertheless after Sinai it supersedes other systems. Nevertheless,
RAL (as opposed to Leibowitz) assumes that halacha contains an
ethical system.

-- 
Eli Turkel