In Defense of Secularizing Whitehead
This essay responds to Lewis Ford’s "Allan’s Atheism," in which he assesses a recent essay of mine that finds God an unnecessary and indeed coherence-destroying addition to Process and Reality. I clarify my position by showing how Whitehead’s notions of physical purpose and aesthetic deter...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
2010
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Process studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 319-333 |
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| Summary: | This essay responds to Lewis Ford’s "Allan’s Atheism," in which he assesses a recent essay of mine that finds God an unnecessary and indeed coherence-destroying addition to Process and Reality. I clarify my position by showing how Whitehead’s notions of physical purpose and aesthetic determination adequately account for the novelty required for an actual occasion’s concrescence and for increases in achieved value. I then criticize Ford’s claim that genuine novelties must have a divine origin and that in Adventures of Ideas the Eros of the Universe refers to God. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/44799055 |