Perspective in Whitehead's MetaphysicsState University of New York Press, 30 jun 1983 - 295 pagina's Stephen David Ross presents an extensive, detailed, and critical interpretation of Whitehead's mature thought, emphasizing the fundamental role of perspective in Whitehead's cosmology, and tracing the conflicts and difficulties therein to tensions involving perspective in relation to other central features of Whitehead's thought. Ross isolates four principles as having a fundamental role in whitehead's metaphysics: perspective, cosmology, experience, and mechanical analysis. He argues that many of Whitehead's difficulties can be eliminated by raising the principle of perspective to prominence and by revising the other central features of Whitehead's theory accordingly. This book addresses key Whiteheadian texts and secondary interpretations of Whitehead. The discussion ranges over most of Whitehead's theory in Process and Reality, and offers a number of significant and, in some cases, novel views on different aspects of Whitehead's theory: perception, prehension, causation, objective immortality, self-causation, the extensive continuum, natural order, possiblity, concreteness, and God. Ross's concluding suggestions for modifying Whitehead's system promise to occasion much debate among process philosophers, theologians, and anyone concerned with Whitehead's thought. |
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actual entity actual occasions actual world Alfred North Whitehead analysis becoming causal efficacy causal inheritance character complete concept concrescence concrete consequent nature constitute contemporary occasions cosmic epoch cosmological principle creativity datum defines definite determinate divisible elements emphasize environment essential eternal objects expression extensive abstraction extensive continuum freedom function fundamental future geometrical ground human important incompatible indeterminateness individual inexhaustibility inherent involved limitation lure for feeling mathematical mode multiplicity nexus notion novelty objectification occasion's ontological principle paradigm particular past occasions perception perspectival philosophy philosophy of organism physical point of view possibilities potentiality prehension presentational immediacy presupposes principle of experience principle of perspective principle of relativity Process and Reality propositions qualified question regions relatedness relational essences relevant satisfaction self-causation self-determination sense society spective standpoint subjective aim subjective forms temporal theory of relativity ultimate unconditioned unified unique unity universe unqualified Whitehead's system Whitehead's theory