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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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Before Alfred North Whitehead's 'Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness' there was William James' 'Vicious Intellectualism'.
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Before Alfred North Whitehead's 'Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness' there was William James' 'Vicious Intellectualism'.
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Before Alfred North Whitehead's 'Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness' there was William James' 'Vicious Intellectualism'.
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Reading Victor Lowe "Understanding Whitehead" on "organism" some pieces fall into place.
Since we're humans, not machines, thinking about the foundation of epistemology may take von Uexküll's umwelt-innenwelt dialectic as a functional point of view.
As lebewesen we can't do anything against the systemic relation, the analogy, between prehension and metaphysics. This is our grounding.
#AlfredNorthWhitehead #VictorLowe #vonUexküll #metaphysics #organism
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> A brief, and sufficiently accurate, description of the intellectual life of the European races during the succeeding two centuries and a quarter up to our own times is that they have been living upon the accumulated capital of ideas provided for them by the genius of the seventeenth century..
#ANWhitehead, #ScienceAndTheModernWorld
#Chomsky's #CartesianLinguistics stars with this quote..
and the #AlfredNorthWhitehead source is on-line! Includes #ReligionAndScience !
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611 -
> ... there has always been a conflict between religion and science; and in the second place, both religion and science have always been in a state of continual development... Theology itself exhibits exactly the same character of gradual development, arising from an aspect of conflict between its own proper ideas.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1925/08/religion-and-science/304220/
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611
#AlfredNorthWhitehead #ReligionAndScience #ScienceAndTheModernWorld #Theology
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> In any genre it may happen that the first great example contains the whole potentiality of the genre. It has been said that all philosophy is a footnote to Plato. It can be said that all prose fiction is a variation on the theme of #DonQuixote.
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#LionelTrilling #TowardsLiberalEducation #AlfredNorthWhitehead on #Plato applied to the #Novel and #DonQuijote of #Cervantes. #EduardoGaleano says the first novels were by the Japanese women "SeiShonagon and #MurasakiShikibu