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CRESCAS, HASDAI BEN ABRAHAM (1340-1410)

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 411 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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