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Personal order in Whitehead
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Personal order adds a serial relation of inheritance to Whitehead’s account of society. The technical distinction helps explain endurance without establishing that every such order is a human person.
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Whitehead: becoming, experience and the world · Lesson 5 of 9
Why do things endure?
For Whitehead, a society of occasions is held together by inherited order, not by resemblance alone. Do such societies explain the endurance of familiar things, or only assume it?
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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.