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Is Whitehead a Taoist sage?


>In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence
>We find here the final application of the doctrine of objective immortality. Throughout the perishing occasions in the life of each temporal Creature, the inward source of distaste or of refreshment, the judge arising out of the very nature of things, redeemer or goddess of mischief, is the transformation of Itself, everlasting in the Being of God. In this way, the insistent craving is justified — the insistent craving that zest for existence be refreshed by the ever-present, unfading importance of our immediate actions, which perish and yet live for evermore.
>The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element of the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self-identity of things and their mutual diversities.
>Thus the universe is to be conceived as attaining the active self-expression of its own variety of opposites of its own freedom and its own necessity, of its own multiplicity and its own unity, of its own imperfection and its own perfection. All the opposites are elements in the nature of things, and are incorrigibly there. The concept of God is the way in which we understand this incredible fact that what cannot be, yet is.

>> No.13869878

>>13869835
He a jewish nigger that got retroactively BTFO by Alexander the Great.

>> No.13869933

He's even better. He is articulate and has a system that is applicable to a lot of shit. Taoism was something that degenerated to a pastime for aristocrat degenerates.

>> No.13869943

>>13869922
>>13869933
easy on the dubs anon

>> No.13869948

>>13869933
>has a system
if it's a system it's prescriptive therefore incomplete. btfo by guénon once more.

>> No.13869983

>>13869948
It's an open system meaning it is not finished and always assembling

>> No.13870831

Bump

>> No.13870834

Shut the fuck up and stop spamming about this faggot

>> No.13871033

What do I have to have read before tackling this balding prematurely BTFO motherfucker?
>I have read near everyone of importance, except Thomas of Aquin, up to Schelling.

>> No.13871051

>>13869835
>Permanence can be snatched only out of flux
not actually a true statement

this is poetry, not philosophy.

>> No.13871242

>>13871051
It's true. It's both.
>>13871033
Be familiar with Hume, Spinoza, Kant, Leibniz, Hegel, and the Romantic poets.

>> No.13871269

>>13871242
>Romantic poets.
english?

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>>13869878

>> No.13871307

>>13871269
Yes. Specifically Wordsworth and Shelley. They were his favorites.

>> No.13871314

>>13869878
You Alexander the Great's Successor Successor Successor Successor's opponent, meaning Parmenides?

>> No.13871320

>>13871242
>It's true.
You, like that retard Whitehead, have not bothered to actually show how it is true.

>> No.13871433

keep spamming him

>> No.13871459

>>13871320
Yes.

>> No.13871764
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"In this way God is completed by the individual, fluent satisfactions of finite fact, and the temporal occasions are completed by their everlasting union with their transformed selves, purged into conformation with the eternal order which is the final absolute 'wisdom.' The final summary can only be expressed in terms of a group ofantitheses, whose apparent self-contradictions depend on neglect of the diverse categories of existence. In each antithesis there is a shift of meaning which converts the opposition into a contrast.

"It is as true to say that God is permanent and the World fluent, as that the World is permanent and God is fluent.

"It is as true to say that God is one and the World many, as that the World is one and God many.

"It is as true to say that, in comparison with the World, God is actual eminently, as that, in comparison with God, the World is actual eminently.

"It is as true to say that the World isimmanentin God, as that God is immanent in the World.

"It is as true to say that God transcends the World, as that the World transcends God.

"It is as true to say that God creates the World, as that the World creates God...

"What is done in the world is transformed into a reality in heaven, and the reality in heaven passes back into the world... In this sense, God is the great companion – the fellow-sufferer who understands."

>> No.13872104

Bump

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>>13869835
Anti-bump.

>> No.13872391

>>13872158
Why is /lit/ memeing a mudslime?

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>>13872391
Why are 3 faggots on discord memeing an angloid new-ager that was retroactively debunked by Parmenides?

>> No.13872629

>>13872560
What

>> No.13872668

>>13872560
There has been no BTFOing of Whitehead on here just major misreadings/people talking about him without reading him.

>> No.13872673

This man is bald

>> No.13872711

>>13872668
Yes he has. There is a wealth of literature on the Eleatic doctrine of the simultaneity of thought and being and Whitehead's inability to contend with it.

>> No.13872733

>>13872673
He looks like Stefan Molyneux

>> No.13872755

>>13871764
>In this way God is completed by the individual, fluent satisfactions of finite fact, and the temporal occasions are completed by their everlasting union with their transformed selves, purged into conformation with the eternal order which is the final absolute 'wisdom.' The final summary can only be expressed in terms of a group ofantitheses, whose apparent self-contradictions depend on neglect of the diverse categories of existence. In each antithesis there is a shift of meaning which converts the opposition into a contrast.
Kinda sounds like Hegel