Process and RealitySimon and Schuster, 11 mei 2010 - 448 pagina's One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead’s influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whitehead’s master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant. The ultimate edition of Whitehead’s magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds. |
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PART II | 29 |
Objective Immortality | 31 |
FACT AND FORM | 39 |
THE EXTENSIVE CONTINUUM | 49 |
PART IV | 62 |
PART V | 105 |
ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENT | 110 |
PROCESS | 208 |
THE TRANSMISSION OF FEELINGS | 244 |
PROPOSITIONS AND FEELINGS | 256 |
COORDINATE DIVISION | 283 |
EXTENSIVE CONNECTION | 294 |
FLAT LOCI | 302 |
STRAINS | 310 |
MEASUREMENT | 322 |
LOCKE AND HUME | 130 |
FROM DESCARTES TO KANT | 144 |
SYMBOLIC REFERENCE | 168 |
THE IDEAL OPPOSITES | 337 |
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abstract actual entity actual occasions actual world Alfred North Whitehead antecedent arises atomic becoming causal character complex components conceived conceptual prehension concrescence consciousness constitution contemporary contrasts cosmic epoch cosmology creativity creature datum David Ray Griffin defining characteristic definite derived Descartes determinate diverse doctrine edition elements emotional enduring objects environment eternal objects example experience express extensive continuum fact final Gifford Lectures given historic route Hume Hume's Hume's principle immediate individual ingression interpretation involved lectures Locke Locke's logical meaning mental metaphysical mode multiplicity negative prehensions notion objectification ontological principle original particular perception phase philosophy of organism physical Plato potentiality presentational immediacy presupposes primary primordial nature Process and Reality proposition protons reason reference relations relevance satisfaction scheme Scholium SECTION sensa sense simple ideas statement structured society subject-superject subjective aim subjective form substance systematic term theory thought Timaeus tion ultimate unity universe whereby Whitehead
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Pagina 22 - That the potentiality for being an element in a real concrescence of many entities into one actuality, is the one general metaphysical character attaching to all entities, actual and non-actual; and that every item in its universe is involved in each concrescence. In other words, it belongs to the nature of a 'being' that it is a potential for every 'becoming.