User:Yesselman

Identity
Hello I'm Yesselman, I opened this Wikipedia account on November 22, 2005.

I am an eighty-four year old retired Structural Engineer who has studied the philosopy of Baruch Spinoza some sixty-odd years; time permitting.

I have explained my fascination with Spinoza in the Preface to Spinozistic Ideas.

Home Page: A Dedication to Spinoza's Insights

Contributions to Wikipedia
Note 1. {Curly Brackets} indicate my comment. Note 2. {G-D} indicates where I believe Spinoza's Immanent God is intended by the context.

Note 3. If you comment on my Edits, kindly notify me on my Talk page.


 * Definitions: Spinoza's Definitions, Parkinson on Spinoza's Definitions, Joy, Love, Prejudice, Supersition,
 * Spinoza: Spinoza on Good and Bad, Good and Bad, Food Chain,


 * Spinoza's Dictum—I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.


 * Sin—No Praise-No Blame, Free Will, Mark Twain on Free Will, Spinoza and Liebniz on Free Will,


 * God: Evolution of the Concept of God results in the re-interpretation of Holidays, Spinoza's God, Deus, Being, Cause of Itself, Conceived-in-Itself,  Analogies to help understand 'G-D' and 'G-d'.


 * World view: Two World Views; The ideal is to understand the two-sides— Duck or Rabbit and G-D or God, World Views, World Views Synthesized,


 * Religion: Definition of Religion, Spinoza's Religion, ONE, Shema Yisrael, Elwes37, Spinozism is evolved Judaism, Atheism,


 * Cash Value, Cash Value of Religion,
 * Peace of Mind, Loss of an Arm,
 * Understanding, Leap of Faith, Leap of Faith,


 * Chain of Events—What is, is, The Principle of Sufficient Reason., Things Happen Necessarily.


 * Descartes: Descartes' Error,


 * Transcendence (religion): Transcendent God or Immanent G-D, Transcendence of Otherness,
 * Spinoza's Excommunication,


 * Semitic languages: Hebrew Words: Sin, Pity, Righteousness,  Charity, Love, Fear,


 * Idolatry: Definition of Idolatry,


 * Pantheism: Definition of Idolatry, Spinoza's Pantheism,


 * Self preservation: Conatus, Salmon, Increase and decrease in Conatus, Being, Rational,


 * Emotion: Emotion, James's Bear, Wegner's James' Bear and Free Will,


 * Happiness: Joy,


 * Boredom: Boredom,


 * Sorrow: Sorrow,


 * Faith: Faith,


 * Love: Love.


 * Apathy: Indifference,


 * Hate: Hate.


 * Calculus of the Emotions,


 * Computer: What is Man?, Brains and Computer, A Computer of Sorts, Functionalism, Language is Software, ROM and RAM,


 * Games: Definition of Games,


 * Selfishness: Self-Interest, Virtue of Selfishness, Foundation of Virtue,


 * Altruism: Altruism does not Exist, Love is Need,


 * Golden Rule:


 * Organic Interdependence,


 * Law of Organisms,


 * Mysticism: Mysticism Defined, Spinozistic Mysticism, Buber and Hasidism, Two Types of Meetings, I and thee,


 * Telos (philosophy): Ends and Purposes,


 * Goodness and value theory, Bad: Good and Bad,

Projects

 * WikiProject Judaism

Disclaimer
I admit that my user page is a shameless steal from User:Izehar and other user pages, but as I lack the technical and artistic skills to come up with a decent user page on my own, it's all I could do. As a result of that, I don't believe that I am entitled to reserve any rights and this, along with every other contribution I make, is released into the public domain.