Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Sefarad
Angaben zur Quelle:
80,2 (2020) 449-478
Keywords:
Prado, Juan de,
;
Spinoza, Benedictus de, Friends and associates
;
Révah, I. S.
;
Crypto-Jews
;
Jewish physicians
;
Jewish philosophy 17th century
Abstract:
In the middle of the 17th century, the young Spinoza and the physician Juan de Prado met in the Sephardic community of Amsterdam. Israël S. Révah considered the encounter as the initial spark for a rupture. According to the French scholar, the New Christian Prado decisively influenced the future Dutch philosopher and provoked his shift to heterodoxy. Furthermore, Révah in Iberian Crypto-Judaism saw the origins of the Spinozistic rupture, the more as he discovered that there was a third man involved in the matter. This Juan Piñero, who also had a Jewish background, according to a tes-timony of the time on his part pushed Juan de Prado to heterodoxy. Only recent research allows the partial reconstruction of his extraordinary life, that reflects the intellectual crisis of certain academic circles in 17th-century Spain
Note:
With an English summary.
DOI:
10.3989/sefarad.021-012
URL:
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