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Baruch or Benedictus
Vivas, Elisbo | August 22, 1934 issue

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This article focuses on two books "The Philosophy of Spinoza. Unfolding the Latent Process of His Reasoning," written by Harry Austryn Wolfson and "Spinoza and Buddha. Visions of a Dead God," written by S.M. Melamed. Wolfson's interpretation of philosopher Baruch Spinoza is that of a student of medieval Jewish philosophy. According to him, Spinoza did not contribute anything essentially new to the intellectual heritage of the West. Baruch's thought turns along the beaten logical paths of medieval reasoning. Unlike Wolfson's book, Melamed's is art impressionistic, eccentric, and even on the surface quite prejudiced essay. The reader is left extremely baffled by it.

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BOOKS; PHILOSOPHY of Spinoza. Unfolding the Latent Process of His Reasoning, The (Book); SPINOZA & Buddha (Book); WOLFSON, Harry Austryn; MELAMED, S. M.; PHILOSOPHY
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