Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead
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🌌 🧠 Rethinking #Mind, #Space, & #Time – #Whitehead’s #Metaphysics in the 20th Century
Who was the most significant #metaphysician of the 20th century? For many leading #philosophers, the answer is clear: #AlfredNorthWhitehead.
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/09/27/metaphysik-des-bewusstseins/
🎥 https://youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4
#ProcessPhilosophy #Metaphysics #Panpsychism #GodehardBrüntrup #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #LiberalNaturalism #ExplanatoryGap #Zoomposium #Philosophy #NearDeathExperience
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🌌 🧠 #Geist, #Raum & #Zeit neu denken – #Whitehead’s #Metaphysik im 20. Jahrhundert
Wer war der bedeutendste #Metaphysiker des 20. Jahrhunderts? Für viele führende #Philosophinnen und #Philosophen steht fest: #AlfredNorthWhitehead.
📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/09/27/metaphysik-des-bewusstseins/
🎥 https://youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4
#Prozessphilosophie #Metaphysik #Panpsychismus #GodehardBrüntrup #Bewusstsein #PhilosophieDesGeistes #LiberalNaturalismus #Erklärungslücke #Zoomposium #Philosophie #Nahtoderfahrung
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Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
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"’The beauty of the #economicman,’ as #AlfredNorthWhitehead remarked, 'was that we knew exactly what he was after’.” open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...
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“The progress of #philosophy does not primarily involve reactions of agreement or dissent. It essentially consists in the enlargement of #thought, whereby contradictions and agreements are transformed into partial aspects of wider points of view.” - #AlfredNorthWhitehead
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“The progress of #philosophy does not primarily involve reactions of agreement or dissent. It essentially consists in the enlargement of #thought, whereby contradictions and agreements are transformed into partial aspects of wider points of view.” - #AlfredNorthWhitehead
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
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A quotation from Alfred North Whitehead
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English mathematician and philosopher
Essay (1926-08), “The Education of an Englishman,” Atlantic MonthlyMore about this quote: wist.info/whitehead-alfred-nor…
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“ #Obscurantism is the refusal to speculate freely on the limitations of traditional methods. It is more than that: it is the negation of the importance of such speculation, the insistence on incidental dangers.” - #AlfredNorthWhitehead, The Function of #Reason
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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“There is no greater hindrance to the progress of #thought than an attitude of irritated party-spirit.” #AlfredNorthWhitehead
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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 -
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlfredNorthWhitehead #Action #Ideas
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
-- Alfred North Whitehead⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlfredNorthWhitehead #Simplicity
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah
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I've long argued that technological communities have a believe system of their own, sometimes creating irreconcilable problems when a shared project creates a cross-cutting concern.
A.N. Whitehead argued that people are recruited into believe systems, much like in religions.
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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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Just in ! Another lesser-known text by Whitehead, in a nice first edition from 1934.
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@heidilifeldman This is, of course, a way based on method, and as all methods it's vulnerable to logical fallacies. Those that apply the methods get rapidly tied-in into institutions, and life unfolds where the institution has no reach. Life always finds a way. #alfrednorthwhitehead
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Just in ! There are quite a few smaller texts written by Whitehead that are not often quoted and I've certainly not (yet) read them all.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by copybooks and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
-- Alfred North Whitehead⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AlfredNorthWhitehead #Complexity #Simplicity
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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 !
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There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
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“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
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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