Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Reading Group: 11 October 2011

Whitehead conceives of three formative elements:
1. Eternal object is always a potentiality for actual entities; but in itself, as conceptually felt, it is neutral as to the fact of its physical ingression in any particular actual entity in the temporal world. 
2. God is the organ of novelty, aiming at intensification. He is the lure for feeling, the eternal urge of desire. The primary element in the 'lure for feeling' is the subject's prehension of the primordial nature of God. 
3. Creativity is the principle of novelty. An actual occasion is a novel entity diverse from any entity in the 'many' which it unifies. Thus 'creativity' introduces novelty into the content of the many, which are the universe disjunctively. 
Next week, we read Chapter 2: The Formative Elements (pp. 20-35) from A Key to Process and Reality.

Date: 11 October 2011 (Tuesday)

Time: 2.30 pm

Venue: Library, Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi

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