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Roth, Leon
Is There a Jewish Philosophy?, 03/1999Book Chapter
1. The great bodies of constructive ideas on which modern Western civilization is built are conventionally traced back to Israel, Greece and Rome: morals and religion to Israel, the sciences and the plastic and literary arts to Greece, law and public administration to Rome. If this is true, it is true only roughly. No civilization can exist without possessing in some measure every one of these activities. Greece and Rome had religion and much of it survives today, just as Israel and Greece had, and bequeathed, law. Indeed, religion and art and science and law appear everywhere (howbeit in varying degrees)
