{"id":331,"date":"2016-06-24T11:49:39","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T11:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=331"},"modified":"2017-10-31T15:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T15:40:06","slug":"appendix-s-book-1-god-and-evil-v-book-2-god-and-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"APPENDIX S: Book #1 (God and Evil) v. Book #2 (God and Good)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n
APPENDIX S:<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Book #1 (God and Evil) <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
v.<\/div>\n
Book #2 (God and Good)<\/span>\n <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Many readers of the Summa<\/span>
\n much pr<\/span>efer Book #1 over\n <\/div>\n
Book #2.<\/div>\n
Presumably<\/span>, it is
\n clear<\/span>er<\/span>, and its style is more in a classic\n <\/div>\n
expository presentation\/form. Plus Book #1 actually
\n uses\n <\/div>\n
real, normal sentence structur<\/span>es.\n <\/div>\n
Furthermore, Book #1 is almost <\/span>a stand-alone, fairly\n <\/div>\n
comprehensible original and hi-energy<\/span>, complete\n <\/div>\n
Metaphysics.<\/div>\n
But only \u2018almost.<\/span>\u2019 <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n
Whereas Book #1 conceptualized and framed-out the\n <\/div>\n
existence of Quest for Potential (enroute to dealing
\n with\n <\/div>\n
theodicy<\/span>, and before I
\n br<\/span>ought Extraordinariation into the\n <\/div>\n
equation), Book #2 attempts to get its arms around the <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
entire Q4P<\/span>.<\/div>\n
However<\/span>, the mission of
\n Book #2 is not so simple.\n <\/div>\n
How does one use regular language to describe an\n <\/div>\n
in\ue0c4nitely expanding (as we speak) In\ue0c4nitude?<\/div>\n
I thought about Book #2 for fourteen years before\n <\/div>\n
commencing 5-6 years of writing. And I only even\n <\/div>\n
conceived of a line of approach<\/span> 12 years into the fourteen\n <\/div>\n
years of mulling-over this little task. So, either
\n I\u2019m slow or\n <\/div>\n
the task is challenging, or some combination
\n thereof.\n <\/div>\n
As noted in the introductory section to God and
\n Good,\n <\/div>\n
Book #2 is heavily intuitive<\/span> as the major motif, and heavily <\/span><\/div>\n
intellectual as the minor motif, whereas Book #1 was the <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
mirror<\/span>-image in these
\n regar<\/span>ds.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\n
T<\/span>o achieve my (ambitious?)
\n goals for Book #2, I needed\n <\/div>\n
to not only push my own psyche to its limits, which
\n was\n <\/div>\n
frankly painful, but I needed to push your psyches
\n to\n <\/div>\n
their respective limits, which I pr<\/span>esume may have been\n <\/div>\n
somewhat grating, aggravating, frustrating or some\n <\/div>\n
combination thereof.<\/div>\n
I saw no other route.<\/div>\n
And time marches on.<\/div>\n
Remember that Book #1 initially encountered very\n <\/div>\n
signi\ue0c4cant resistance when it was published in 1988.
\n No\n <\/div>\n
one criticized it; it just wasn\u2019t \u201cgrasped.\u201d Then,
\n about 2-5\n <\/div>\n
years after publication, it achieved \u2018traction,\u2019 for
\n whatever\n <\/div>\n
combination of reasons. Note that Book #2 plays at a <\/span><\/div>\n
totally differ<\/span>ent
\n level (higher) than Book #1, which itself was <\/span><\/div>\n
not shy in its goals. <\/span>\n <\/div>\n
\u2014 Birnbaum<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

APPENDIX S: Book #1 (God and Evil) v. Book #2 (God and Good) Many readers of the Summa much prefer Book #1 over Book #2. Presumably, it is clearer, and its style is more in a classic expository presentation\/form. Plus Book #1 actually uses real, normal sentence structures. Furthermore, Book #1 is almost a stand-alone, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.potentialismtheory.com\/td\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}