The essence of all actuality, according to Hartshorne, is to be non-exhaustive of potency, and this potency is the result of the infinite range of possibility that the PN of God offers.
Not exact matches
The Whiteheadian
actuality, the occasion, represents a complete and thoroughgoing rejection
of the substance - attribute conception, and is entirely relational in its
essence.
First
of all, it is as true for Aristotle as it is for Whitehead that in dealing with natural
actuality we always encounter both principles or «poles,» which together constitute one natural entity, whose duality or bipolarity is part
of its
essence.
Whitehead believes that Plato discovered those general ideas which are relevant to everything that happens: The Ideas, the Physical Elements, The Psyche, The Eros, The Harmony, The Mathematical Relations, The Receptacle.30 In adapting Plato's seven basic notions Whitehead takes «the notion
of actuality as in its
essence process «31 as his starting point.
It contributes its unique individual
essence to the determination
of the
actuality.
For Husserl every
actuality (Whitehead's actual Occasion) is an expression
of an
essence (Whitehead's eternal object); experience is composed
of «individual instances
of...
essences» (Ideas 113).
Elsewhere the same idea is expressed in different terms by White - head: «the very
essence of real
actuality — that is,
of the completely real — is process.
The first category states the doctrine in a general way: that every ultimate
actuality embodies in its own
essence, what Alexander terms «a principle
of unrest,» namely, its becoming.
This «inclusiveness» is
of the
essence of the dialogical relation, for the teacher sees the position
of the other in his concrete
actuality yet does not lose sight
of his own.
Everything that is actual participates in the same kind
of existence, what might be called the
essence or nature
of actuality.
He draws a three-fold distinction among
essence (the most abstract feature
of what a thing is), existence (the fact that a thing is), and
actuality (the particular characteristics that qualify an existing thing).
Moreover, in the divine case,
essence (what God is) and existence (that God is) are the same.12 Thus, Hartshorne usually speaks
of the distinction between existence and
actuality.
The «consequent»
actuality of deity is the sequence
of determinate, contingent experiences expressing both the
essence of deity and the de facto content
of the world God experiences at a given moment.
If X5S1 is to display itself in its for - otherness aspect, the process
of gaining
actuality will bring into play the second set
of characteristics: non-unique relational
essence (3), element
of associated hierarchy (5), rendering
of possibility
of decision (6), ingression (8), and repeatability (9).
If possibility and
actuality could be united to become necessity, they would become an absolutely different
essence, which is not a kind
of change; and in becoming necessity or the necessary, they would become that which alone
of all things excludes coming into existence, which is just as impossible as it is self - contradictory.
Given his dipolar theism, Hartshorne must also be interpreted in this passage as affirming not that the «eternal abstractor» has an immutable vision
of the categories in every
actuality but that each divine feeling recognizes anew that it bears a categorial
essence which will also have been borne by all other divine feelings.
Possibility and
actuality do not differ in
essence but in being; how could there from this difference be formed a synthesis constituting necessity, which is not a determination
of being but a determination
of essence, since it is the
essence of the necessary to be.
The existence
of an «
essence» or «coherent idea» involves that this latter is «somehow actualized or instantiated,» the
actuality of an
essence involving the «how or in what concrete form, if at all» it is actualized.
This way
of relating one actual entity to another actual entity is the
essence of each entity's relationship to every other
actuality.