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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first result of his Sheldon trip was a Ph.D. thesis on Crescus' Critique of Aristotle, later expanded into book form. Crescus, a 15th century Jewish philosopher, led him to Spinoza, first to a series of articles in the Chronicum Spinozarum and then to a two-volume work on Spinoza that was published in 1934. Already, however, he had begun to conceive of a grander project, a series of books on the "Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza," of which a revised edition of his Spinoza work would from the terminal point. Working "backwards and sideways...

Author: By Michael O. Finkelstein, | Title: The Search for Baruch | 5/24/1955 | See Source »

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