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HASDAI BEN ABRAHAM CRESCAS (1340-1410)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 411 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEN
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ABRAHAM
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CRESCAS (1340-1410)  ,
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Spanish philosopher . His
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work, The
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Light of the
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Lord ('Or `Adonai), deeply affected
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Spinoza, and thus his
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philosophy became of wide importance .
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Maimonides (q.v.) had brought Jewish thought entirely under the domination of
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Aristotle . The work of
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Crescas, though it had no immediate success, ended in effecting its liberation . He refused to
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base Judaism on speculative philosophy alone; there was a deep emotional
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side to his thought . Thus he based Judaism on love, not on knowledge; love was the
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bond between
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God and
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man, and man's fundamental
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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
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free will, and in the whole trend of his thought the
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influence of Crescas is strongly marked . See E . G .
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Hirsch, Jewish
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Encyclopaedia, iv . 350 . (I .

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