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Volume 38, Issue 1, Spring/Summer 2009

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Lewis S. Ford Temporal and Nontemporal Becoming
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Whitehead’s initial decision to treat actual occasions as unqualifiedly indivisible rendered the notion of succession in becoming highly problematic. Temporal phases would divide the indivisible. Thus Whitehead had originally recourse to genetic analysis. Many have interpreted this as nontemporal becoming, which is not clearly distinguished from the eternity of eternal objects. Besides, Whitehead reserved the term ‘nontemporal’ for the primordial nature. Finally Whitehead came to see that the indivisibility of occasions meant onlythat they could not be divided into smaller actual occasions (PR 69), which allowed for genetic division.
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Rem B. Edwards People and Their Worth: Uniting Process and Axiology
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This article argues that process philosophy and Hartmanian formal axiology are natural allies that can contribute much to each other. Hartmanian axiology can bring much needed order and clarity to process thought about the definitions of “good,” “better,” and “best,” about what things are intrinsically good, and about the nature and value of unique, enduring, individual persons. Process thought can bring to axiology greater clarity about and emphasis on the relational and temporal features of human selfhood. The nature and significance of personal endurance is emphasized throughout.
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Edgar A. Towne Toward More Clarity about Coherence in Whitehead’s Metaphysics: A Proposal
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What I call ambiguities of system due to the sheer complexity of Whitehead’s metaphysics and his analysis of process in terms of concrescence and transition threaten its coherence in terms of what we know empirically of the quantum and classical dimensions of nature. Ambiguities of equivocation pertaining to Whitehead’s use of the terms “contemporary” and “objectification,” as the latter is employed in relation to prehension and satisfaction, also threaten its coherence. The article proposes ways to reduce these threats and uncertainty about coherence by clarifying ambiguities and by attending to the way Whitehead’s terms are predicated on the quantum and classical dimensions.
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Daniel A. Dombowski Neoclassical Theism and Spiritual Exercises: Pierre Hadot and Nikos Kazantzakis on Askesis
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Relying on Pierre Hadot’s concept of philosophy as spiritual exercise, I examine Nikos Kazantzakis’ magnum opus Askitiki: Salvatores Dei (translated in English as The Saviors of God: Spiritual Exercises). Specifically, I examine the extent to which Kazantzakis offers a version of spiritual exercise appropriate for neoclassical theism, analogous to St. Ignatius’ version of spiritual exercise in the service of classical theism.
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Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. The Objective Reality of the Past: Some Further Reflections
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Some Whiteheadians argue that past actual entities only exist and are available for prehension by later actual entities within the divine consequent nature. Others insist that past actual entities are objectively immortal and available for prehension within the extensive continuum. Based on an interpretation of Whiteheadian societies as structured fields of activity for their constituent actual occasions, this article proposes that the world has an objective reality even apart from the existence of God, and that past actual entities arereflected in the current structure of the cosmic process. Yet the world still needs God as its ultimate source of creativity.
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John B. Cobb, Jr. Landing the Plane in the World of Finance
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Because so little work in most fields of thought has been done from a Whiteheadian perspective, bringing that perspective to bear often highlights what has been little noticed. This essay seeks to contribute to the understanding of the financial crisis and to propose responses from a Whiteheadian perspective. At the same time it reflects explicitly on the difference that this perspective makesas well as the continuing dependence on the work of those who have approached matters from other perspectives.
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Brian G. Henning Consenting to God and Nature: Toward a Theocentric, Naturalistic, Theological Ethics
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Philip Clayton, Ashley Riordan Consciousness, Reality and Value
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Andrew Goffey Vie et expérimentation: Peirce, James, Dewey
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Pierfrancesco Basile Fringes of Religious Experience: Cross-perspectives on William James’s “The Varieties of Religious Experience
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John W. Lango Whitehead’s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance
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Ronny Desmet The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding
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Miroslaw Patalon Między metafizyką A.N. Whiteheada a mechaniką kwantową: [Between A. N. Whitehead’s Metaphysics and Quantum Mechanics]
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Pierfrancesco Basile Perception Reconsidered: The Process Point of View
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Jean-Marie Breuvart L’épreuve de la philosophie: Essai sur les fondements de la praxis philosophique
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