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[Anonymous No.13934563]

>retroactively refutes Whitehead
Based

[Anonymous No.13934936]

>retroactively expresses what whitehead wanted to

[Anonymous No.13935084]

>>13934563
>>13934936
I literally don't know what you are talking about. He reconciles both of them.

"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 of antitheses, 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 is immanent in 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."

[Anonymous No.13935933]

>>13935084
Dont you ever get tired of re emphasising how late you are to the party?

[Anonymous No.13936163]

>>13934563
There's a reason why Whitehead isn't taken seriously outside of the newage community

[Anonymous No.13936194]

>>13936163
Memeing, but he's got a resurgence going on. Even before /lit/ memes

[Anonymous No.13936215]

>>13936194
Where? And don't say China, that article was 10 years ago

[Anonymous No.13936388]

>>13936215
https://medium.com/@aramis720/what-is-process-philosophy-and-who-is-alfred-north-whitehead-4fa4cd3abbcf

Nice article here, he's more relevant then ever for today and the future. International Whitehead Conference is also in its 12th year.

[Anonymous No.13936400]

>>13936388
>International Whitehead Conference
WTF he has his own global conference? but geunonfag told me he got refuted by some dead greek, an irrelevant pajeet and a slightly homosexual french muslim...

what gives?

[Anonymous No.13936419]

>>13936163
Traditionalism is part of the newage community, they are essentially the right wing new-age, you simply can't contend with this fact.

[Anonymous No.13936441]

>>13936400
>what gives?
Protestantism, Mormonism and Scientologists have all been rebuted and btfo by countless thinkers but continue to have countless conferences

[Anonymous No.13936483]

>>13936441
so where is the international guenon conference then??

[Anonymous No.13936489]

>>13936483
in this board next month

[Anonymous No.13936503]

Can someone just give me a rough summary of Whitehead's main point(s), preferably in actually comprehensible language. Every time anyone posts something he wrote I have no fucking clue what he's talking about.

[Anonymous No.13936608]

>>13936503
Here's a fun vid for now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6cDp0C-I8

[Anonymous No.13936610]

>>13936388
>this is the world's foremost Whitehead scholar
https://youtu.be/o6Gf5Q6EwOo

[Anonymous No.13936896]

>>13936503
http://www.philosopher.eu/a-n-whitehead-summary/