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Abravanel may be called the last of the Jewish philosophers of the Middle Ages. He belongs to the Middle Ages, as far as the framework and the main content of his doctrine are concerned. It is true that there are features of his thought which distinguish it from that of all or of most other Jewish medieval philosophers; but most of those features are probably of medieval Christian origin. Yet Abravanel is a son of the humanist age, and thus we shall not be surprised if he expresses in his writings opinions or tendencies which are, to say the least, not characteristic of the Middle Ages. Generally speaking, however, Abravanel is a medieval thinker, a Jewish medieval thinker.
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Cp. Alfred von Martin, Mittelalterliche Welt- und Lebensanschauung im Spiegel der Schriften Coluccio Salutatis, Munich und Berlin, 1913, pp. 22, 61 ff., 82 ff., and 97 ff., and the same author’s Coluccio Salutati’s Traktat Vom Tyrannen, Berlin und Leipzig, 1913, pp. 75 ff.
Cp. L. Strauss, Die Religionskritik Spinozas, Berlin, 1930, pp. 280f.
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Strauss, L. (1997). On Abravanel’s Philosophical Tendency and Political Teaching (1937). In: Meier, H. (eds) Philosophie und Gesetz — Frühe Schriften. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03541-7_5
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