APPENDIX Y: Counterposing Summa Metaphysica (1988, 2005) with Spinoza (d. 1677)
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APPENDIX Y:
Counterposing
Summa Metaphysica (1988, 2005)
with
Spinoza (d. 1677)
There are many
intersection points, but the two
intersection points, but the two
treatises are radically
different, if not diametrically opposite
different, if not diametrically opposite
at the core:
Spinoza posits a coldly impersonal core unifying
dynamic;
dynamic;
I posit a ery 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;
cosmos;
I do – Quest for Innite
Potential/Extraordinariation.
Potential/Extraordinariation.
Spinoza does not grant Man any special place
whatsoever in the universe; Summa does.
Spinoza posits a thoroughgoing deterministic
universe
universe
(i.e. that absolutely everything that happens,
occurs
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,
Randomness,
Emotion and Free Will – is iterative
as its key component,
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.
