The History of Why

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Consequent nature of God

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Whitehead’s consequent nature of God receives the achieved world. Examine what this proposed preservation adds to ordinary inheritance, and why its value remains disputed in the face of personal loss and suffering.

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  • Whitehead: becoming, experience and the world · Lesson 9 of 9

    What can last in a world that perishes?

    Whitehead holds that the past goes on having effects and proposes that God preserves what the world achieves. The lesson tests what either claim establishes about personal survival and suffering, and ends the study with a cumulative checkpoint.

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  • Whitehead: becoming, experience and the world

    An experience receives a world it did not make, yet becomes something that was not there before. How can both be true? Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality builds a philosophy around that difficulty, asking us to begin with occasions of becoming and to explain enduring things, perception, judgment and value through their relations.