Process and RealitySimon and Schuster, 11 May 2010 - 448 sayfa 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. |
İçindekiler
| 18 | |
SOME DERIVATIVE NOTIONS | 31 |
FACT AND FORM | 39 |
THE EXTENSIVE CONTINUUM | 61 |
THE ORDER OF NATURE | 83 |
Inorganic Apparatus for Life | 109 |
LOCKE AND HUME | 130 |
FROM DESCARTES TO KANT | 144 |
PART IV | 219 |
THE TRANSMISSION OF FEELINGS | 244 |
PROPOSITIONS AND FEELINGS | 256 |
Language Its Functiont Origination of the Necessary Train | 264 |
COORDINATE DIVISION | 283 |
FLAT LOCI | 302 |
Weakness of Euclidean Definition Straight Line as Shortest | 322 |
THE IDEAL OPPOSITES | 337 |
Diğer baskılar - Tümünü görüntüle
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology Alfred North Whitehead,David Ray Griffin Metin Parçacığı görünümü - 1978 |
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abstract actual entity actual occasions actual world Alfred North Whitehead antecedent arises atomic becoming causal character complex components conceived conceptual feeling conceptual prehension concrescence consciousness constitution contemporary contrast cosmology creativity datum definite derived Descartes determinate diverse doctrine edition elements emotional enduring objects environment eternal objects example existence experience express extensive continuum fact final function Gifford Lectures historic route Hume Hume's immediate individual ingression interpretation involved Kant Locke Locke's locus logical meaning mental metaphysical mode multiplicity negative prehensions nexus notion objectification ontological principle original particular perception phase philosophy of organism physical feeling Plato potentiality presentational immediacy presupposes primary primordial nature principle of relativity Process and Reality proposition reason reference relations relevance satisfaction scheme Scholium SECTION sensa sense simple ideas specific statement structured society subject-superject subjective aim subjective form substance superject systematic term theory thought Timaeus tion ultimate unity universe whereby Whitehead
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Sayfa 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.