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Whitehead's Radically Temporalist Metaphysics
Recovering the Seriousness of Time
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2020
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In Whitehead's Radically Temporalist Metaphysics: Recovering the Seriousness of Time, George Allan argues that Whitehead’s introduction of God into his process metaphysics renders his metaphysics incoherent. This notion of God, who is the reason for both stability and progressive change in the world and who is both the infinite source of novel possibilities and the everlasting repository for the finite values, inserts into a reality that is supposedly composed solely of finite entities an entity both infinite and everlasting. By eliminating this notion of God, Allan draws on the temporalist foundation of Whitehead’s views to recover a metaphysics that takes time seriously. By turning to Whitehead’s later writings, Allan shows how this interpretation is developed into an expanded version of the radically temporalist hypothesis, emphasizing the power of finite entities, individually and collectively, to create, sustain, and enhance the dynamic world of which we are a creative part.
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1/2020
Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-2003-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-2004-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
197
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 The God That Failed No access Pages 1 - 28
2 The Power of the Present No access Pages 29 - 54
3 The Power of the Past No access Pages 55 - 82
4 The Shadow of Truth No access Pages 83 - 108
5 Erotic Power No access Pages 109 - 136
6 Metaphoric Power No access Pages 137 - 162
7 The Solemnity of the World No access Pages 163 - 190
