APPENDIX Y: Counterposing Summa Metaphysica (1988, 2005)with Spinoza (d. 1677)

METAPHYSICS OF DAVID BIRNBAUM

PHILOSOPHY OF DAVID BIRNBAUM

There are many intersection points, but the two
treatises are radically different, if not diametrically opposite at the core:

Spinoza posits a coldly impersonal core unifying dynamic;
I posit a fiery all–pervading advancing dynamic and consciousness.

Spinoza holds GOOD and EVIL to be relative
concepts;
I hold them to be objective and distinct.

Spinoza discerns no ultimate purpose to the cosmos;
I do – Quest for Infinite Potential/Extraordinariation.

Spinoza does not grant Man any special place whatsoever in the universe; Summa does.

Spinoza posits a thoroughgoing deterministic universe
(i.e. that absolutely everything that happens, occurs through the operation of necessity).

I certainly do not.

Randomness, Emotion, and (total) Free Will are key components in my Metaphysics. Ultimately, Quest for Potential∞/Extraordinariation layered-over Randomness, Emotion and Free Will – is iterative as its key component, and not overarchingly deterministic.

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Both works do have in common, however, an emphasis on an interlocking cosmic lattice-work.

COSMOLOGY OF DAVID BIRNBAUM

THEORY OF EVERYTHING OF DAVID BIRNBAUM