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Author: Stephen David Ross Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780873956581 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 316
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Stephen David Ross presents an extensive, detailed, and critical interpretation of Whiteheads mature thought, emphasizing the fundamental role of perspective in Whiteheads cosmology, and tracing the conflicts and difficulties therein to tensions involving perspective in relation to other central features of Whiteheads thought. Ross isolates four principles as having a fundamental role in whiteheads metaphysics: perspective, cosmology, experience, and mechanical analysis. He argues that many of Whiteheads difficulties can be eliminated by raising the principle of perspective to prominence and by revising the other central features of Whiteheads theory accordingly. This book addresses key Whiteheadian texts and secondary interpretations of Whitehead. The discussion ranges over most of Whiteheads theory in Process and Reality, and offers a number of significant and, in some cases, novel views on different aspects of Whiteheads theory: perception, prehension, causation, objective immortality, self-causation, the extensive continuum, natural order, possiblity, concreteness, and God. Rosss concluding suggestions for modifying Whiteheads system promise to occasion much debate among process philosophers, theologians, and anyone concerned with Whiteheads thought.
Author: Stephen David Ross Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780873956581 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 316
Book Description
Stephen David Ross presents an extensive, detailed, and critical interpretation of Whiteheads mature thought, emphasizing the fundamental role of perspective in Whiteheads cosmology, and tracing the conflicts and difficulties therein to tensions involving perspective in relation to other central features of Whiteheads thought. Ross isolates four principles as having a fundamental role in whiteheads metaphysics: perspective, cosmology, experience, and mechanical analysis. He argues that many of Whiteheads difficulties can be eliminated by raising the principle of perspective to prominence and by revising the other central features of Whiteheads theory accordingly. This book addresses key Whiteheadian texts and secondary interpretations of Whitehead. The discussion ranges over most of Whiteheads theory in Process and Reality, and offers a number of significant and, in some cases, novel views on different aspects of Whiteheads theory: perception, prehension, causation, objective immortality, self-causation, the extensive continuum, natural order, possiblity, concreteness, and God. Rosss concluding suggestions for modifying Whiteheads system promise to occasion much debate among process philosophers, theologians, and anyone concerned with Whiteheads thought.
Author: Friedrich Rapp Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791402023 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 240
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Twelve papers presented at the International Whitehead Symposium, October 1983 in Bad Homburg, West Germany. Topics include Whitehead's place in the history of philosophy, the connection between empirical results and their metaphysical interpretation, cosmological and anthropological dimensions, and the relation between the philosophical and theological interpretations of creativity. Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Christine Helmer Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110899655 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 368
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This collection of essays stages a dialogue between Friedrich Schleiermacher and Alfred North Whitehead on significant features of 'open' system. The volume offers new options for rehabilitating system for future theological and philosophical thinking by opening system to a flexible relation with changing reality. Key ingredients for system are discussed in three areas of contact between Schleiermacher and Whitehead. One such ingredient concerns historical precedents figuring crucially in Western systematic philosophy. Another feature is the systematic categorization of experience that relates epistemology, metaphysics, and the empirical sciences. System is also brought to bear on pressing contemporary issues, such as ethics and religious pluralism.
Author: Delwin Brown Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1610974468 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 157
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""The greatest event in twentieth-century church history was the Second Vatican Council. The greatest achievement, which this event has made possible, is the liberation theology and praxis of Latin America. In this event and in this achievement freedom has won a great victory. ""The consequences of this victory have been almost as important for Protestants as for Catholics. Indeed they have included the destruction of the great wall that separated these two communities for so long. For a while this seemed to render Catholic thought highly dependent upon the last two centuries of Protestant theological development. But the actual result is that the great initiatives of the global Christian movement are now in the hands of Catholics. In so far as there is a center for the theology of the Protestant/Orthodox World Council of Churches, that center is constituted by the primarily Catholic theology of liberation. ""Sadly, however, we must recognize that while liberation theology advances in the Third World, First World churches are drawing back from their supportive interest. This is equally true of Catholics and Protestants, of Germans sand North Americans. Churches in the First World are attending to increasing demands of their more conservative constituencies and seem less and less able to adopt positions that transcend economic and national interests, It seems all too likely that in the eighties a politicized Third World Christianity will confront a First World church concerned for other-worldly salvation and peace of mind and whose political dimension is exhausted by its nostalgia for an older morality and its sanctification of existing structures of power . . . ""Brown's book makes evident how natural it is for North American theologians to share in the themes of liberation theology. Karl Barth astutely observed that when the. United States produced its own theology, this should be a theology of freedom. To Set at Liberty is just such a theology of freedom . . . ""One of the most important lessons the Latin Americans have to teach us is that improved understanding by itself will not go far to produce those changes in United States policy, our church life, or personal life-styles which must occur before our national role ceases to block the movement of political liberation in Latin America And elsewhere. The message of liberation theology is that doctrines developed outside the matrix of practice are likely to have too little effect upon practice. Process theology must learn this lesson too. But meanwhile we can be grateful that Brown has done much to pave the way to partnership between one strand of North American theology and the great movement of Latin American theology."" from the Foreword by John B. Cobb, Jr. Delwin Brown (1935-2009) was Dean Emeritus of the Pacific School of Religion. He also served as Harvey H. Pontoff Professor of Christian Theology at Iliff School of Theology and taught at Arizona State University. His previous work has appeared in such journals as Religious Studies, Process Studies, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and Evangelische Kommentare.
Author: Alexander Haitos Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527549577 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 188
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This book collects several essays on diverse aspects of Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy. Ranging from comparative and historical studies to explorations of contemporary influence to possibilities for transforming future inquiry, the topics covered here first and foremost point to the relevance of Whitehead’s philosophy for our time. From this core, the essays in this volume highlight a range of issues to which process philosophy speaks profitably. These include philosophical questions surrounding motion, the notion of life, and aesthetics, as well as the conjunction of process philosophy with political science and with neuroscience.
Author: Laurence Wilmot Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 0889205531 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 217
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This book is intended as a contribution towards the renewal of theological discourse in the final quarter of the twentieth century. It presents the findings from personal research into the development of the concept of God in the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and the application of his conceptual tools in a re-examination of the writings of some fourth-century Christian theologians in their efforts to provide answers to the problems posed for the Church by Arianism. The research was prompted by Whitehead’s recommendations addressed to theologians in Adventures of Ideas.
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