Sentences with phrase «creative synthesis»

It is persuasion that introduces the possibility of creative synthesis of the new with the old which is the mark of healthy development or growth.

Old structures of existence must give way in creative synthesis to new ones, because, as alive, we experience novelty in the actual world.

This is a habit too many people overlook, but it's where a lot of creative synthesis happens.

His understanding of all reality as creative synthesis demands a multiplicity of truly free entities.

It prehends both the eternal objects and the temporal entities in its past in terms of this aim, and in successive phases of its own becoming it fashions a new creative Synthesis which is itself.

We can not think of an entity except as a unit of self - creativity in which the many factors of the universe become one individual thing which then becomes a part of the many for creative synthesis into a new one.

They involve creative syntheses of internal and external causes.

The claim that «necessarily, creative experience occurs» presupposes as necessary all the statements which describe what creative synthesis is.

I've developed six of them in my book Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method.

The second serious question concerns the claim made throughout Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method that something abstract can be contained in something concrete.

(See my just published Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, LaSalle and London: Open Court; SCM.)

However, as we have seen, no momentary experiencing subject is totally determined; it is literally self - creative, deciding what it is, as it unifies data from the past in creative synthesis and as it actualizes possibilities.

The mathematical procedure, as distinct from the content of Principia Mathematica, provides an interesting insight into the workings of Whitehead's thought as creative synthesis.

For the categories to be illustrated with each new divine feeling, there must obviously be those efficient causes (or there must have been others in place of them) to provide the content for the new creative synthesis; that all preceding efficient causes, divine and subdivine, will always have been required to provide that content will be argued below.

In Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method Hartshorne writes: «A basic procedure in all thinking is to exhaust possible solutions to a problem and arrive at the best or truest by elimination of those that are unsatisfactory....

In the preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers of process of great genius and immense knowledge of the intellectual and spiritual resources of this century.

In such books as Beyond Humanism, Man's Vision of God, A Natural Theology for Our Time, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, and The Logic of Perfection, Hartshorne has been indefatigable in the presentation of this «di - polar» position.

It is the acknowledgment of particularity that makes it possible to think of a creative synthesis emerging from their vigorous and honest interactions.

The problem raised by any literal reading of the Category of the Ultimate may be put this way: how can an actual occasion be at once the creative synthesis of and a novel addition to the many occasions of its correlative universe?

For Hartshorne, to be actual at all is to be an instance of creative synthesis, and this means to have power to be partially determinative of self and others, as well as to have the capacity to be partly determined by other selves.

The agreement between black power and neoclassical philosophies can, therefore, be symbolized by transforming the black power slogan — «Power to the People» — into a more neoclassical formulation — Creative Synthesis to the People; and, conversely, the philosophy of creative synthesis may be understood as a metaphysical affirmation of the social ethical imperative to empower the people.

In Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method Hartshorne says, «Our whole Western tradition is warped and confused by the concept of individual taken as ultimate» (CSPM 190).

Martin, R. M., «On Hartshorne's «Creative Synthesis» and Event Logic,» Southern Journal of Philosophy 9, 4 (Winter, 1971), 399 - 410.

We will soon see that more recently he gave a negative answer to the first of these questions in Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method.

Crosby, D. A., Abstract of «On Hartshorne's «Creative Synthesis» and Event Logic» by R. M. Martin, Process Studies 2, 4 (Winter, 1972), 331 - 332.

Review of Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method (hereafter CSPM), Inquirer, London, Feb. 13, 1971, 6.

My critic does not refer to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, my most philosophical book and the one coming closest to summing up my system.

Wieman variously referred to God with such terms as Growth, Creative Synthesis, Creativity, Creative Event and Creative Interchange, for much the same reasons as Kaplan.

Continue reading «Experience and Philosophy: A Review of Hartshorne's Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method ``

My big mistake, which a more mathematical person would have avoided, has been that my arrangement of a full table of the options in Creative Synthesis, the only book of mine that has it at all, is mathematically inelegant, which considerably reduces its power.

The major distinctive contributions of Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881 - 1983) to twentieth - century religious thought is his creative synthesis of modern Jewish nationalism with spiritual naturalism, religious humanism, and process theology.

Cobb at one point tells us that God's ultimate creative goal is to «introduce the possibility of a creative synthesis of the new with the old,» and Ogden tells us that «God's only aim or intention in exercising his power is the fullest possible self - creation of all his creatures» (PTT 107, FF 89).

Among the major distinctive contributions of Mordecai M. Kaplan (1881 - 1983) to twentieth - century religious thought is his creative synthesis of modern Jewish nationalism with spiritual naturalism, religious humanism, and process theology.

His most recent book, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, was published by Open Court.

Charles Hartshorne, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, (Open Court Publishing Co., La Salle, Ill., 1970), p. 121.

Cf. Hartshorne, Creative Synthesis, p. 118.

Thus we hold that creative synthesis, as such, is then not subject to localization, and thus without contradicting the current laws of physics God is free to participate in the creative process across the entire universe, because God's contact with the world is not mediated by scientific abstraction and is therefore not subject to the restrictions of a local, postprojective theory.