Not exact matches
But his insistence that» [t] he envisaging creativity, the continuum
of extension, B's anticipatory
feeling of C, the disjunctive plurality
of attained
actualities, the multiplicity
of eternal objects, and the primordial nature
of God are all alike involved in the creation
of C's dative [i.e., purely receptive] phase» (326) would lead one to believe that some sort
of objective medium must he present to facilitate the transmission to the new occasion
of so many non-objective factors in its self - constitution (e g creativity, the anticipatory
feelings of B and
other past occasions, the multiplicity
of eternal objects, the divine primordial nature, etc.).
By virtue
of this
felt quality, we know ourselves as
actualities within a world
of other actualities.
The sense
of the presence
of the
other involves a
feeling of the concrete
actuality of the
other,
of being truly present to another,
of being less concerned to shape and control the
other,
of letting the
other be himself in his concrete freedom.
What is at least analogical in the scheme is the idea
of prehension as dependence
of an
actuality on
other actualities, or
of participation,
feeling of feeling, experience
of experience, together with sense
of futurity.
The objective content
of conformal
feelings constitutes reality as experienced, for it embodies our direct confrontation with
other actualities (Adventures
of Ideas 269).
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.
As Charles Hartshorne has suggested, it may be that
feeling of feeling is an ultimate principle, applicable to deity and every
other singular
actuality.
Finally, Whitehead's methodology
of descriptive generalization would, on the micrological view, be seen as belonging within a particular tradition, i.e., as involving what might be called a «metaphysical reduction»
of the empirical world to some foundational and actual element, on the same methodological lines as Leibniz's monads, Bradley's substrative
feeling, Alexander's space - time matrix, or Heidegger's Being.12 In
other words, Whitehead's actual entities are conceived as having a special kind
of actuality of their own as the ground or foundation from which the empirical world derives.
Exclusive attention to the integration
of physical
feeling, on the
other hand, can ignore the way these are originally rooted in a multiplicity
of past
actuality.