Sentences with phrase «advance into novelty»

There is a creative advance into novelty,» and in this advance God may surprise the world and the world may surprise God.

In this sense every step in the evolution of a new organism (be it an increase or decrease in complexity) is in Whitehead's terminology «a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).

«The universe is creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).

But human experience has a continuity in origin from the feelings that constituted the being of the first mammals, the reptiles from which they evolved and all individual entities prior to them in the evolutionary sequence going back to the physicists» initially featureless universe — hence Whitehead's proposition that the cosmic evolution of the universe «is a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).

Both God and the world «are in the grip of the ultimate metaphysical ground, the creative advance into novelty» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 529).

Unfortunately, Whitehead made very little effort — at least in this over-concise passage — to clarify the relation of his» creative advance into novelty» to the plurality of measurable time.

But when he speaks of «the creative advance into novelty,» you have to give it some character by which it is an active transfer of properties.

First, Whitehead developed his ideas as he wrote his books; he developed his ideas even during the writing of his major work, Process and Reality, exhibiting his view that reality is a creative advance into novelty.

It is clear, though, that Whitehead teaches that the efficacy of an actual entity in the «creative advance into novelty» (PR 349 / 530) is intimately related to satisfaction of subjective aim.

I have already drawn attention to the fact that in his later work Whitehead replaces his earlier expression «the creative advance of nature» by «the creative advance into novelty.»

Novelty, freedom, spontaneity are secondary vis - à - vis ongoingness: there has to be novel concrescence in order for there to be freedom, spontaneity or novelty What has to be explained is becoming, which for Whitehead means: «the creative advance of nature» (as he puts it in the earlier works), or «the creative advance into novelty» (as he puts it later on).

(Both God and the world «are in the grip of the ultimate metaphysical ground, the creative advance into novelty» [PR 529]-RRB- In this section I will attempt to clarify both the role in creation attributed to God by Whitehead and the relation of God to creativity.

The universe is thus a creative advance into novelty.

He characterises their unity as a creative advance into novelty.

Perfection is redefined as the unsurpassable creative advance into novelty.

Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 88) Hence we are all part of the creative advance into novelty.

This argument is inadequate because the universe is a creative advance into novelty which will never cease.

Its value lies both in its own uniqueness and in its everlasting contribution to God in the creative advance into novelty.

But unlike man's experiences which when experienced perish, God's unified feeling is always immediate, never perishing, even as it is always moving forward in a creative advance into novelty.

Each thing actualized in the universe is itself a creative advance into novelty according to Whitehead.

Both [God and the world] are in the grip of the ultimate metaphysical ground, the creative advance into novelty.

Whitehead fundamentally views the nature of reality as a creative advance into novelty.

Central to Whitehead's metaphysics in Process and Reality is his rejection of «the classic notion of «time»» (35): «There is a prevalent misconception that «becoming» involves the notion of a unique seriality for its [creative] advance into novelty» (35).

«There is a prevalent misconception,» Whitehead asserted, «that «becoming» involves the notion of a unique seriality for its advance into novelty» (Process 35).

Both are in the grip of the ultimate metaphysical ground, the creative advance into novelty.»

«In their primary role, propositions pave the way along which the world advances into novelty» (PR 187).

Rather, time is produced by the atomic, episodic actualities which together constitute and engender the universe, as it advances into novelty (PR 21 / 31, 65f.

Not exact matches

It is then the obligation of love to save the process from issuing into decay through introducing novelty which is additionally creative and alone can advance the value of experience.

And as the creative advance of the universe brings more and more novelty into the picture, the events of the past are continually given a new and unanticipated significance.

But without an adventurous advance toward novelty and freshness the universe would be frozen into utter sameness.

We habitually muddle together this creative advance, which we experience and know as the perpetual transition of nature into novelty, with the single time - series which we naturally employ for measurement.