Not exact matches
It should not be surprising then that Whitehead thought of God as a single
actual entity immune to the possibility of loss.59 At least William Christian sees this as the proper Whiteheadian
view.60 Nevertheless, Christian's position is challenged by Ivor Leclerc, who argues, in agreement with Hartshorne, that Christian's conclusion is incompatible with the categoreal scheme elaborated in chapter two of Process and Reality.61 Here, according to Leclerc, Whitehead «makes clear» that the category of «
subjective perishing» is «necessarily applicable to every
actual entity whatever, including God.»
Thus, granted the existence of God, I myself hold that the person is created by God, and I would suggest that this
view is what is required by a Whiteheadian theory if we are to take seriously the
view that God creates the
subjective aim of any
actual occasion.
Let it suffice to say that the same state of affairs in the case of self - referential feeling can also be analyzed without recourse to eternal objects, namely, in
view of the «
subjective form» and the «concept of the
actual world.»
In this way, for instance, value can now be established as an essential feature of the nature of things, in that from the
subjective standpoint of a concrescing
actual entity objectification is an evaluation of dative
actual entities with a
view to its own self - enjoyment and aim at satisfaction (RM 85, 101f.).