Whitehead's Metaphysics of Extension and SolidarityState University of New York Press, 30 jun 1986 - 437 pagina's At the base of Whitehead's philosophy of organism is a vision of the solidarity of all final actualities. Each actuality is a discrete individual enjoying autonomous self-determination, yet each also requires all other actualities as essential components and partial determinants of its own nature. This vision of universal solidarity, Nobo demonstrates, is the fundamental metaphysical thesis whose truth the categories and principles of Whitehead's philosophy were expressly designed to elucidate. The received interpretations of Whitehead's thought, Nobo shows, have ignored the mutual relevance of the solidarity thesis and the organic categoreal scheme and, for that reason, have grossly misrepresented many of Whitehead's most important metaphysical doctrines. Contending that the difficult tasks of interpreting and developing Whitehead's metaphysics presuppose an understanding of the solidarity thesis, Nobo explores that thesis and the metaphysical categories and principles most relevant to its elucidation. In the process, he not only corrects many misinterpretations but also develops important metaphysical doctrines that Whitehead neglected to make sufficiently explicit in his published writings. It is precisely in terms of the neglected doctrine of eternal extensive continuity, Nobo demonstrates, that the more puzzling aspects of the solidarity thesis are satisfactorily explained. He then shows that the extensional solidarity of all final actualities is an essential ingredient of the generalized conception of experience on which Whitehead builds his ontology, cosmology, and epistemology. |
Inhoudsopgave
1 | |
2 | |
3 | |
4 | |
5 | |
6 | |
7 | |
8 | |
as one and as many | 241 |
A comment on the theory of extensive connection | 243 |
Brief comment on physical spacetime | 246 |
Summary | 248 |
SIX Objectification Position and SelfIdentity | 251 |
Three objections refuted | 252 |
intrinsic and extrinsic | 259 |
The multiple location and unique position of an actual occasion | 267 |
The principles of creativity relativity ontology and process | 9 |
actuality and the principle of process Succession and anticipation supersession and the future | 10 |
Solidarity the extensive continuum and the formative | 12 |
Brief preview of remaining chapters Two The Principle of Relativity xiii I | 13 |
12793 | 18 |
To be is to be repeatable | 62 |
Repetition in experience | 69 |
Repetition in the dative phase | 73 |
Repetition in the conformal phase | 76 |
Repetition and novelty in the mental phases | 83 |
Conceptual novelty and Gods primordial nature | 87 |
Autonomy physical novelty and the integrative phases | 90 |
The ubiquity of repetition | 92 |
69 | 104 |
Solidarity the Ultimate and the Categoreal Scheme | 135 |
Transition and the principles of ontology and creativity | 137 |
Transition distinguished from concrescence | 138 |
Threefold causation decision and the ontological principle | 151 |
Decision objectification and actuality | 158 |
Summary | 161 |
FOUR Creativity Eternal Objects and | 165 |
its reality as a potentiality for the becoming of actualities | 166 |
their individual and relational essences | 175 |
abstractive hierarchies and connexity | 178 |
abstractive hierarchies and his primordial nature | 181 |
73 | 182 |
his consequent and superjective natures | 186 |
76 | 191 |
their general modes of functioning | 195 |
Extension and the spatiotemporal continuum | 214 |
Extension and solidarity | 219 |
The theory of organic extensive aspects | 222 |
a Separativeness | 223 |
b Modality | 224 |
c Prehensiveness | 231 |
The theory of organic aspects in SMW | 234 |
Modal presence and objectification | 240 |
Position and the indicative scheme | 273 |
Selfidentity and positional uniqueness | 278 |
Aboriginal position and acquired definiteness | 281 |
122 | 283 |
From bare particular to fullyclothed individual | 285 |
Selfidentity and selfdiversity | 289 |
Summary | 300 |
SEVEN Extensional Solidarity and the Dative Phase | 303 |
The relevance of attained actualities and extension | 304 |
123 | 305 |
83 | 306 |
The relevance of creativity and envisagement | 307 |
The relevance of eternal objects of the objective species | 310 |
The relevance of eternal objects of the subjective species | 318 |
The relevance of Gods primordial nature | 320 |
The occasion as internally related to a knowable universe | 326 |
The dative phase as the real potentiality for subjective experience | 330 |
The dative modal scheme as the real potentiality for aesthetic integration | 332 |
Extensional solidarity and the philosophy of organism | 346 |
extension and the modes | 357 |
Perception knowledge and objective solidarity | 367 |
Functional solidarity and autonomous individuality | 380 |
129 | 383 |
131 | 388 |
Autonomy and the evaporation of indeterminacy | 391 |
NOTES | 399 |
135 | 408 |
137 | 410 |
87 | 414 |
417 | |
425 | |
427 | |
428 | |
429 | |
430 | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
abstraction according to Whitehead actual entity actual occasion actual world aspects attained actualities autonomous becoming causal objectification character completed occasion components conceptual feelings conceptual reproduction conformal feelings constitute construed contrast correlative universe cosmic epoch creative advance dative phase definiteness determinate earlier efficient causation elucidation embodied envisagement eternal objects existence experience explain extensive continuum extensive regions extensive scheme extensive standpoint extrinsic reality fact God's primordial nature individual ingression initial subjective aim interpretation involves means mirrors modal presence modal structure modal subregion mode mutual immanence nexus notion objective content objective datum objective functioning occasion's ontological organic philosophy particular past phase of conceptual philosophy of organism position prehension present presupposes principle of relativity process of concrescence process of transition proper region realization reason relational essences relevant repetition respect self-functioning self-identity self-realizing sense spatio-temporal subject-superject subjective form superject supersession supersessionally synthesis theory thesis of solidarity tion ultimate unity Whitehead's Metaphysics