Moreover, it receives a great many different ways of feeling, as it feels the feelings of a multiplicity of past actualities, and it must synthesize all these into one
final subjective form, the one final attitude it adopts towards its world (cf. AI 327).
Not exact matches
Whitehead himself describes the utterance of the phrase «United Fruit Company»; «The
final occasion of his experience which drove his body to the utterance of the word «Company» is only explicable by his concern with the earlier occasions with their
subjective forms of intention to procure the utterance of the complete phrase» (AI 234f).
«
Subjective aim», on the other hand, points out a definite conceptual feeling, present throughout concrescence, affecting the subjective forms of all its feelings in order to bring them into a fi
Subjective aim», on the other hand, points out a definite conceptual feeling, present throughout concrescence, affecting the
subjective forms of all its feelings in order to bring them into a fi
subjective forms of all its feelings in order to bring them into a
final unity.
This
final integration of
subjective form does not obviate the role of the individual
subjective form of a particular occasion, however, since «the consequent nature of God is composed of a multiplicity of elements with individual self - realization» (PR 531; italics added).
Unless we are to suppose that there is little or no correlation between the initial aim and the
final form of the
subjective aim — a very strange supposition — we must assume vast differences in the initial aims derived from God by a primitive man and by an Einstein, or for that matter, between myself as I drop off to sleep in the evening and as I write these words.
The three factors he describes are the subject, or the unity of the process; the
subjective form, or the manner of development; and the
subjective aim, or the
final cause of the process.
Moreover, as the process of concrescence proceeds, the
subjective forms of the prehensions which make up the concrescence are adjusted to one another in accordance with the
subjective aim so that they will all be compatible for the
final synthesis of satisfaction (PR 235 / 359f.
Specifically, the particular complex
form of
final subjective response centrally depends on the settled characters of antecedent experiencers.
But although negative prehensions eliminate their data from inclusion in the internal constitution of the new actual entity, they contribute their
subjective forms to the total «emotional complex» of the
final satisfaction (PR 41f.
Whereupon Lucas concludes: «the inheritance of a common
form in a living regnant society consists in the serial coordination of the successive
subjective aims of the actual entities (i.e., the complete and peculiar «summation» of the series by each succeeding term) toward a
final end or «satisfaction» of the society as a whole» (TVF 44).
There is the freedom of conceptual innovation in which novel corrective and developmental
forms of definiteness emerge in the mental pole as potentiality for
final causation, and there is autonomous self - causation in which a mutually determined synthesis of the physical pole and the mental pole modifies the initial ideal aim to become the
subjective aim, which is the
final cause.
Both kinds of feelings are pre-reflectively meaningful because, for Whitehead, reflective, judgmental consciousness is only one «
subjective form» of feelings, which is possibly present in the
final phase of some concrescences.
This colors Whitehead's
final description of genetic growth in concrescence: «At length a complex unity of objective datum is obtained, in the guise of a contrast of actual entities, eternal objects, and propositions, felt with corresponding complex unity of
subjective form» (PR 283 / 433M).