HASDAI See also:

• BEN (from Old Eng. bennan, within)

BEN See also:

• ABRAHAM, or ABRAM (Hebrew for " father is high ")

ABRAHAM See also:

• HASDAI BEN ABRAHAM CRESCAS (1340-1410)

CRESCAS (1340-1410)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish philosopher . His See also:

• WORK

work, The See also:

• LIGHT

Light of the See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord ('Or `Adonai), deeply affected See also:

• SPINOZA, BARUCH (1632-1677)

Spinoza, and thus his See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy became of wide importance . See also:

• MAIMONIDES

Maimonides (q.v.) had brought Jewish thought entirely under the domination of See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle . The work of See also:

• CRESCAS, HASDAI BEN ABRAHAM (1340-1410)

Crescas, though it had no immediate success, ended in effecting its liberation . He refused to See also:

• BASE

base Judaism on speculative philosophy alone; there was a deep emotional See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side to his thought . Thus he based Judaism on love, not on knowledge; love was the See also:

• BOND
• BOND, SIR EDWARD AUGUSTUS (1815-1898)

bond between See also:

• GOD

God and See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man, and man's fundamental See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty was love as expressed in obedience to God's will . Spinoza derived from Crescas his distinction between attributes and properties; he shared Crescas's views on creation and See also:

• FREE

free will, and in the whole trend of his thought the See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence of Crescas is strongly marked . See E . G . See also:

• HIRSCH, MAURICE DE, BARON HIRSCH AUF GEREUTH
• HIRSCH, SAMSON RAPHAEL (r8o8-1888)

Hirsch, Jewish See also:

• ENCYCLOPAEDIA

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