![]() They do not rust or wither, wear down, or fade away. Circleness, squareness, and 2 + 2 = 4 are timeless. For him and so many others, the truths of mathematics provided the paradigm of reality. Plato gave priority to Being partly because he loved ideas. Only in changeless eternity can we hope to escape our mortality. More importantly, we don’t want to die, and we know that change brings death. We can count on them to last, to be there tomorrow and next year. Rocks, iron, and mountains suggest unchanging reality-Being. How shall we hold them together? Which, if either, is deeper? Shadows, wind, and clouds pass so quickly that they seem mostly unreal. Every great philosophy and religion must address these fundamental categories. Each points to something true, to something we care about. Yet, even the ocean itself never remains unchanged. Each distinct wave that touched us returned to the ocean of which it had always been a part. The ocean waves washed our feet in the ancient sacrament of time. James the evening, we walked on the beach. The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time. May he have a long and wonderful journey, filled with chocolate and love.Ĭhapter 1: A Process-Relational World: An Adventure That MattersĬhapter 2: Imaginative Generalization: The Search for a Comprehensive VisionĬhapter 3: Minds, Bodies, and Experience: Envisioning a Unified SelfĬhapter 4: Experience All the Way Down: Seeking an Imaginative LeapĬhapter 5: Reality as Relational Process: Substance and ProcessĬhapter 6: Reality as a Causal Web: A Constructive PostmodernismĬhapter 7: Unilateral Power: Power, Value, and RealityĬhapter 9: Creativity, Freedom, and God: What Makes Freedom Possible?Ĭhapter 10: Looking Ahead: The Future of Process-Relational ThoughtĪppendix: Getting Technical: Whitehead’s Language To Elliot, who is the becoming of our future. Includes bibliographical references and index. Process-relational philosophy : an introduction to Alfred North Whitehead / C. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mesle, C. Spiritual realities include unlimited love, accelerating creativity, worship, and the benefits of purpose in persons and in the cosmos. Templeton Foundation Press helps intellectual leaders and others learn about science research on aspects of realities, invisible and intangible. Printed in the United States of America 08 09 10 11 12 13 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Copyright 1978 by Free Press, a Division of Simon and Schuster. Copyright © 1929 by The Macmillan Company copyright renewed 1957 by Evelyn Whitehead. Quotes from Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. No part of this book may be used or reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of Templeton Foundation Press. ![]() Robert Mesle Designed and typeset by Gopa and Ted2, Inc. Templeton Foundation Press 300 Conshohocken State Road, Suite 670 West Conshohocken, PA 19428 Templeton Foundation Press west conshohocken, pennsylvania Process-Relational Philosophy an introduction to alfred north whitehead Process-Relational Philosophy: A Basic Introduction makes Whitehead's creative vision accessible to all students and general readers. In doing so, he points to a "way beyond both reductive materialism and the traps of Cartesian dualism by showing reality as a relational process in which minds arise from bodies, in which freedom and creativity are foundational to process, in which the relational power of persuasion is more basic than the unilateral power of coercion."Because process-relational philosophy addresses the deep intuitions of a relational world basic to environmental and global thinking, it is being incorporated into undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy, educational theory and practice, environmental ethics, and science and values, among others. Robert Mesle breaks down Whitehead's complex writings, providing a simple but accurate introduction to the vision that underlies much of contemporary process philosophy and theology. It is derived from Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy, known as process theology, which lays a groundwork for integrating evolutionary biology, physics, philosophy of mind, theology, environmental ethics, religious pluralism, education, economics, and more.In Process-Relational Philosophy, C. Process thought is the foundation for studies in many areas of contemporary philosophy, theology, political theory, educational theory, and the religion-science dialogue.
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