Books

Moshe Pitchon’s books examine responsibility, leadership, and moral agency across historical, political, civilizational, and embodied contexts. They are written neither as academic monographs nor as journalistic interventions, but as philosophical reflections addressed to readers concerned with authority, dignity, and ethical judgment in times of disruption.

Each work approaches its subject not as an isolated case, but as a lens through which broader questions of responsibility and legitimacy can be examined.

Published Books

Something New Is Happening: The Life and Times of Naftali Bennett

A philosophical study of leadership under conditions of political fatigue and institutional distrust. Rather than offering a biography or partisan analysis, the book examines how leadership behaves when belief encounters responsibility and charisma gives way to judgment.

The book treats Bennett not as an ideological figure, but as a case through which to explore leadership when authority must be exercised without the shelter of stable political mediation.

Published in English and Spanish.

The Maccabean Playbook: Then and Now

A reflection on power, resistance, and moral choice in Jewish history. Drawing on the Maccabean moment as a philosophical rather than nationalist episode, the book examines how communities confront domination, internal fracture, and the ethical limits of force.

The work explores the tension between survival and responsibility, and the risks that arise when power is justified solely by necessity.

Published in English and Spanish.

Judaism and Artificial Intelligence: Dignity and Moral Responsibility

An inquiry into human agency in an age of accelerating intelligence. The book examines how moral responsibility can be preserved when decision-making is increasingly automated, delegated, or abstracted.

Rather than treating artificial intelligence as a technical problem, the work approaches it as a moral challenge that tests the foundations of dignity, accountability, and human presence.

Published in English and Spanish.

Answering the World: Core Jewish Values in the 21st Century

A philosophical exploration of Jewish ethical concepts as responses to being addressed by the world. The book argues that Jewish values are best understood not as doctrines or slogans, but as orientations toward responsibility, judgment, and restraint in the exercise of power.

Palavra de Deus: Comentários Bíblicos do Século 21

A collection of biblical commentaries written from a 21st-century philosophical and ethical perspective. The book approaches biblical texts not as closed doctrinal statements, but as living sources of moral address and interpretive responsibility.

Published in Portuguese.

Tai Chi as Therapeutic Medicine

Embodied Regulation for Chronic Illness, Stability, and Neurodegenerative Care

This book explores Tai Chi as a therapeutic and ethical practice grounded in embodied regulation rather than performance or fitness. Drawing on clinical contexts and lived practice, it examines how movement disciplines can support stability, dignity, and agency in chronic illness and neurodegenerative conditions.

The work connects bodily awareness with ethical presence, arguing that care for the body is inseparable from care for human dignity.

Languages

Moshe Pitchon’s books have been published in:

• English

• Spanish

• Portuguese

(French editions and translations are in preparation.)

Method and Audience

These books are written for readers seeking depth rather than polemic. They address political leaders, educators, scholars, healthcare professionals, and thoughtful general readers concerned with the moral conditions of leadership, responsibility, and care in contemporary society.

The aim is not to offer solutions, but to clarify the ethical stakes of decisions made under pressure.