Whitehead's Ontology
Author: John W. Lango
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1972-06-30
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 1438410077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of Whitehead's metaphysics through a study of his Process and Reality.
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God, Time, and Eternity
Author: William Lane Craig
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2001-09-30
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781402000119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this highly original and ground-breaking work, the author brings together discussions in the philosophy of time and space, philosophy of language, phenomenology, philosophy of science, Special and General Relativity, classical cosmology, quantum mechanics, and so forth, with the concerns of philosophy of religion and theology, in order to craft a philosophically informed and scientifically tenable doctrine of divine eternity and God's relationship to time.
The Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics
Author: F. Bradford Wallack
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1980-06-30
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780873954549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile my book attempts to reflect the full range of scholarly debate, I have also attempted to make it useful to anyone interested in Whitehead. To this end, I have introduced the Whiteheadian terms one by one, explaining each in the light of my interpretation, and I have used examples wherever possible. I try to show that Whitehead intended his philosophy have a place in our lives by reshaping our common conceptions, and that he did not intend it to be relegated to purely abstract or esoteric application. F. Bradford Wallack The twentieth century has seen the greatest innovations in philosophical cosmology since Newton and Descartes, and Alfred North Whitehead was the first and greatest of the philosophers to work out these innovations in systematic ways. In a book that will be controversial in the philosophical community, F. Bradford Wallack argues that interpretations widely accepted by Whiteheadians need revaluation because these interpretations are based on materialist and substantialist assumptions that Whitehead sought to replace. Specifically, she proposes a thorough revision of accepted interpretations of Whiteheads concept of the actual entity. Wallack then elucidates Whiteheads ideas in order of their increasing dependence upon other basic Whiteheadian terms to complete the study of Whiteheadian time and to clarify its purpose within the cosmology of Process and Reality. Whiteheads philosophy then emerges as more intelligible and cohesive than is generally believed.
Forms of Concrescence
Author: Granville C. Henry
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780838752371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRicorso and Revelation traces the impact on Modernism of the archaeological discoveries of the Palace of Knossos, the Royal Cemetery of Ur, and the Tomb of Tutankhamen, and the artifacts recovered from these sites, showing how they entered the narrative strategies of the Modernist movement. The author also develops a new argument about the four myth configurations — the maze, alchemy, the Great Goddess, and the Apocalypse — which were of central importance to the literature of European Modernism between 1895 and 1946, studying their appearances in a wide range of European modernist writers and in the paintings of Picasso and the films of Jean Cocteau. Drawing from a variety of theories on myth, Smith suggests that each of these four myths represents a creative return to the origins (ricorso), a reduction of the raw materials of daily life to the fundamental elements of creation (revelation), followed by a recreation of the world (cosmogenesis), of the poet (ontogenesis), and of the text (poesis).
The Seventy's Course in Theology; Second Year, Outline History of the Dispensations of the Gospel
Author: B. H. Roberts
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-09-21
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 3387072066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Divine Impassibility
Author: Richard E. Creel
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2005-06-21
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1597522732
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this volume, Richard Creel sets forth a thesis that offers a third way to approach divine impassibility. Defining impassibility as imperviousness to causal influence from external factors, Creel sketches a path between Aquinas and Hartshorne, by asserting that once this definition is accepted, one must still distinguish the various respects in which God is or is not impassible. Virtually no one would dispute that the divine nature is impassible. God will never cease to be God, no matter what happens in creation. With respect to the divine knowledge and will, however, there are conflicting views. Creel claims that God's will is impassible because God knows everything that can be accomplished by divine power. Yet, unlike Aquinas, Creel believes that God has this knowledge in virtue of a 'plenum' of possibilities eternally coexistent with the divine being. The absolute is not simply God, but rather God plus the 'plenum'. Creel suggests that God's knowledge is passible with respect to the contingent future actions of creatures. God knows these actions, therefore, not in their presentiality from all eternity, as Aquinas would hold, but only as they happen and become actual. God's will, however, remains immediately impassible because the divine will is ordered to possibilities, not actualities. God never has to wait until after we do something in order to decide his response to it. He has eternally decided his response to all that we might do. Ultimately God's feelings remain impassible, no matter what concrete decisions human beings make, because the basic intent of the divine plan for us is always achieved: we exercise our freedom to choose for or against God. God is impassible with respect to the divine nature, divine will, and divine feelings; but God is passible with respect to the divine knowledge of future contingent events.
Perspective in Whitehead's Metaphysics
Author: Stephen David Ross
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780873956581
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen 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.
Metaphysics and the Modern World
Author: Donald Phillip Verene
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-09-02
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1498238017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetaphysics and the Modern World makes the abiding questions of the nature of the self, world, and God available for the modern reader. Donald Phillip Verene presents these questions in both their systematic and historical dimensions, beginning with Aristotle's claim in his Metaphysics that philosophy begins in wonder. The first three chapters concern the origin of metaphysics as the transformation of the conception of reality in ancient Greek mythology, the ontological argument as the basis of Christian metaphysics, and the Renaissance cosmology of infinite worlds and the coincidence of contraries. The final four chapters present the central issues of the metaphysics of history through the New Science of Vico, the principle of true infinity of Hegel's Logic, the dialectic of spirit and life in Cassirer's Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms, and the conception of actual entities and God in Whitehead's Process and Reality. In these discussions, the reader will find a lively and learned account of a field of philosophy that is often thought difficult to access, but in this work becomes most accessible and a pleasure to read.
Bhagavad Gītā
Author: Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura
Publisher: Tattva Cintāmaṇi Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 155
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura wrote two translation-cum-commentaries on the Bhagavad-Gītā known as Rasika-rañjana and Vidvad-rañjana. These commentaries are based on Srīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī's Sārārtha-varṣiṇī and Srīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa's Gītā-bhūṣaṇa, respectively. The two works are mostly the same, with only a few differences here and there. In some places, one commentary provides additional information, while in others, they differ in the words they use. In most instances, they only change the word order, with no change in meaning, since Bengali is a language with a free word order. To facilitate a comparative study for the inquisitive readers, a single translation is given, with differences or additions from each of the commentaries shown in brackets.
