But serioulsy, Bill S: Here is a taste of Whitehead's philosophy and theology.
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Alfred North Whitehead
First published Tue May 21, 1996; substantive revision Tue Oct 1, 2013

Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) was a British mathematician, logician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science.

In collaboration with Bertrand Russell, he co-authored the landmark three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910, 1912, 1913).

Later he was instrumental in pioneering the approach to metaphysics now known as process philosophy....
For more on this great thinker, check out:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/
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5. Whitehead on Metaphysics

Facing mandatory retirement in London, and upon being offered an appointment at Harvard, Whitehead moved to the United States in 1924.

Given his prior training in mathematics, it was sometimes joked that the first philosophy lectures he ever attended were those he himself delivered in his new role as Professor of Philosophy.

As Russell comments, “In England, Whitehead was regarded only as a mathematician, and it was left to America to discover him as a philosopher” (1952, 93).

A year after his arrival, he delivered Harvard's prestigious Lowell Lectures. The lectures formed the basis for Science and the Modern World (1925).

The 1927/28 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh followed shortly afterwards and resulted in the publication of Whitehead's most comprehensive (but difficult to penetrate) metaphysical work, Process and Reality (1929c).

Together, his three books The Concept of Nature (1920), Science and the Modern World (1925) and Process and Reality (1929c) provide a relatively complete statement of Whitehead's mature metaphysical system.
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6. Whitehead's Influence

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Unlike the logical apparatus Whitehead developed with Russell, Whitehead's attempt to provide a metaphysical unification of space, time, matter, events and teleology has been less than enthusiastically embraced by members of the broader philosophical community.

In part, this may be because of the connections Whitehead

saw between his metaphysics and traditional theism.

According to Whitehead,

religion is concerned with permanence amid change,

and can be found in the ordering we find within nature,

something he sometimes calls the “primordial [from the beginning, original]
nature of God” (1929c, 31, 32; cf. Pt 5, Ch. 2, secs 1-7).
In my opinion, what he had in mind was not a dimensional god-like personal being we call, God; but 'god' as process, G~0~D

--a process that is at work within, around and through human consciousness--the ability to WILL to do good, or evil.

When, as god-like beings, we choose to eschew evil and let the highest good be the goal we engage EVOLUTION as a partner. This power will, with the help of science, enable us to start Gently Opening Doors to the future. smile




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