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For further details, see my essay on «Whitehead's First Metaphysical Synthesis,» International Philosophical Quarterly 17/3 (September, 1997), 251 - 64; and Victor Lowe's rejoinder, «Ford's Discovery about Whitehead,» IPQ 18/2 (July, 1978), 223 - 26.

If writing a technical philosophical or theological essay, I should wish here to urge how much work needs to be done by way of analysis on the notion of dependence.

See my essay on «Whitehead's First Metaphysical Synthesis,» International Philosophical Quarterly 17/3 (September, 1977), 251 - 64, or the first chapter of EWM.

One essay (by Randall Morris) focuses on Hartshorne's political thought, another (by Piotr Gutowski) on his conception of theology, and a third essay (by David Pailin) on his contributions to philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.

George Orwell, in his famous essay on Dickens, saw in this philosophical and moral muddle not a weakness but a strength, a generosity of spirit, an openness to the irreducible complexity of mankind's moral situation, an immunity to what he called «the smelly little orthodoxies that are now contending for our souls.»

As Sir Julian Huxley wrote of The Mass on the World, it is a «truly poetical essay... at one and the same time mystical and realistic, religious and philosophical».

There is a particularly strong resemblance between Whitehead's small and suggestive work in the philosophy of science, The Function of Reason, and Collingwood's methodological treatise, An Essay on Philosophical Method.43

The first results of these metaphysical inquiries can be found in the five books of the manuscript «Notes towards a Metaphysic» (written from September 1933 till May 1934), in which he makes an endeavor to construct a cosmological - metaphysical system of his own, 5 following the example of Whitehead's and Alexander's description of reality as a process, but based on his method elaborated in An Essay on Philosophical Method, 6 and in «Sketch of a Cosmological Theory,» the first (never published) cosmology conclusion to The Idea of Nature.

Take a look at ten issues from that first year or two and you'll find essays on religious freedom, war and peace, marriage and family, philosophical materialism, literary figures, and theological movements.

In the Introduction to her Love» s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature (1990), Nussbaum relates that when she was in high school and college, she wrote papers about literary works that explored questions that she would later learn to call «philosophical» questions.

«No one has ever touched Zeno without refuting him,» he writes in a short essay commenting on the fundamental line of thought in his chief philosophical work, Process and Reality.16 In the same essay he explicitly distinguishes his theory from two other opposed positions: on the one hand from the view that interprets the character of becoming as illusory and becoming itself as simply empty and nonexistent in comparison with beings and their being.

Here see my essay on «The Non-Temporality of Whitehead's God» International Philosophical Quarterly 13/3 (September 1973), 347 - 76.

(Antony Flew and Alasdair MacIntyre, eds., New Essays in Philosophical Theology [London: SCM Press, 1955], p. 106; see also Antony flew, God and Philosophy [New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966] for a full - fledged attack on belief in God.)

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Last season, for example, excerpts from a moving essay by Pulitzer Prize - winning critic Hilton Als on iconic black author James Baldwin and his queer «children» provided the philosophical context, and prior to that, there was a poem by Lynette Yiadom - Boakye, the British - Ghanaian painter and writer.

During this period, he continued his pre-stardom activities of writing music, poetry, and philosophical essays (in 1983, he'd published a book of aphorisms, Perfect Moment of Truth Sayings); he also managed his own recording label, turning out a well - received album to cash in on his Miami Vice success.

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The essay by Bente Larsen, Professor in Art History at the University of Oslo, focuses on the fragmented body and how this aesthetic and philosophical concept relates to Thomas Schütte's work.

Under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, Violet Paget (1856 — 1935) published a bewildering variety of work, including historical studies; meditative essays on art, music, gardens, and travel; philosophical dialogues; treatises on aesthetic theory and psychology; and supernatural tales.

In a related note, Geopolitics.com re-ran this essay on the philosophical and economic context of climate change as statism versus free markets:

In general, this essay (which is unfortunately behind a paywall) is worth running down, particularly if you want an introduction to some of the philosophical problems associated with the GDRs approach, and a collection of opinions on the various quantitative / philosophical judgments that are embedded within the framework.

This volume offers a unique collection of the most important essays written on the Trial, discussing the key legal, political and philosophical questions raised by the Trial both at the time and in historical perspective.