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Melamed, Abraham | Goodman, Lenn E.

The Philosopher-King in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political Thought

2012 - SUNY Press

287 p.

Machiavellian rejection of the theory of the philosopher-king and its influence upon early modern Jewish scholars, such as Simone Luzzatto and Spinoza, who rejected it in favor of a so-called "Republican" attitude. [Publisher's Text]