Lately, I've been reading (and tweeting about) Whitehead. I'm about 100 pages into Stengers' book. It's fantastic. Thinking with Whitehead — Isabelle Stengershttps://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674416970#.XriIp5Ekn2I.twitter …
I don't yet have a good grasp on Whitehead's unique conception of God, so I can't say. It's not the aspect of his thought that most interests me, though I'm impressed to see Stengers fully embrace the need to think it through carefully
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It bothers me cause it makes feel his philosophy as inconsistent in a similar way as Verela felt uneasy with Telliard de Chardin. It seems the figure go God is introduced to satisfy his biases towards theism
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Or in favor of Theism
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Here a take. The first role of God as a “primordial nature” is to orden the “eternal objects( puré forms, potentials) into an eternally fixed logical realm, with graded levels of relevance to everything that ocurrs or might occur in the world. This realm
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1/ Juan, yes his God determines gradations of relevance of eternal objects for particular concrescences, increasing the likelihood of their entering to a concrescence, but he is also there to nudge things along according to aesthetic aim of creativity and novelty. It’s his way
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Is also the source of each new finite entity’s initial aim which it coverts, by its power of causa dúo, into its own subjevtive aim. This initial aim is Gods judgment, in the form of the graded lével of relevance of the eternal ordered in the mind of God.
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God soy de to me awful and introduced by hand in a system that otherwise would habe been very consistent
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