Metaphysics and Historicity [The Aquinas Lecture, 1961]

Some sentences underlined with pencil, otherwise, a tight, bright, and clean copy-" Emil Fackenheim (1916 -- 2003) is best known for his work beginning in about 1967 as a Jewish philosopher and theologian of the Holocaust who taught that there was a 614th commandment in Jewish law to not give a posthumous victory to Hitler. Prior to that time, Fackenheim wrote on Jewish philosophy but he wrote as well on broad philosophical themes not particularly tied to Judaism. Thus, in 1961, Fackenheim, then a professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, gave the annual Aquinas Lecture at Marquette University, Milwaukee, on the subject "Metaphysics and Historicity". His lecture was published, heavily expanded with extensive footnotes, in this book as part of the outstanding series of the Aquinas Lectures."