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Between Process and Eternity: Whitehead Halfway to the Block Universe
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ISBN13: 9798180554925
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
We are used to thinking of the world as a collection of things. A stone, a tree, a person, a star - each seems to sit firmly inside its own outline, finished and self-contained. But what if this is an optical illusion of the mind? What if there are no things at all, only events; no substances, only processes; no finished objects, only an endless work of becoming?
This is the wager that Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician turned philosopher, placed at the center of one of the strangest and most beautiful philosophical systems of the twentieth century. In his vision the universe is not a warehouse of objects but a living tissue of happenings, where every moment is a choice, a response, an act of creation - and where even God is not a distant architect issuing commands, but a companion to the world, offering possibilities without ever compelling the answer.
Written in clear, vivid prose and entirely without mathematics, this book is an invitation to see reality as if the eyes were opening for the first time. It traces the whole arc of process philosophy - the death of substance, the rebirth of time and space, the meaning of freedom, the ethics of accompaniment, a different way of not vanishing into death. And it does not stop at admiration. As the book draws toward its close, a quieter, more personal voice emerges, asking whether Whitehead, for all his honesty, stopped halfway - whether he traded the full rigor of his thought for the consolation of a sympathetic God, leaving the stricter schema of the block universe standing just beyond his reach.
A book about the tension between process and eternity, between living experience and metaphysical consistency - a conversation that is, by design, left open.
Keywords Whitehead, process philosophy, becoming, time, free will, block universe, metaphysics
Written in clear, vivid prose and entirely without mathematics, this book is an invitation to see reality as if the eyes were opening for the first time. It traces the whole arc of process philosophy - the death of substance, the rebirth of time and space, the meaning of freedom, the ethics of accompaniment, a different way of not vanishing into death. And it does not stop at admiration. As the book draws toward its close, a quieter, more personal voice emerges, asking whether Whitehead, for all his honesty, stopped halfway - whether he traded the full rigor of his thought for the consolation of a sympathetic God, leaving the stricter schema of the block universe standing just beyond his reach.
A book about the tension between process and eternity, between living experience and metaphysical consistency - a conversation that is, by design, left open.
Keywords Whitehead, process philosophy, becoming, time, free will, block universe, metaphysics
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