In the Whiteheadian system, God directs the development of an actual entity in the sense of luring it towards a form of self - realization productive of the greatest possible
future intensity of feeling.
Not exact matches
An occasion exercises its freedom, he says, toward «
intensity of feeling (a) in the immediate subject and (/ 3) in the relevant
future.»
What kind
of satisfaction the initial aim is directed toward is determined by the relevant possibility for its actualization, as established by its past, that will give it the greatest
intensity of feeling and also contribute maximally to the
future of the nexus
of which it is a part.
For according to the category
of subjective
intensity, the subjective aim
of an occasion is directed not merely at
intensity of feeling in the present subject, but also in its relevant
future.
In temporal occasions the initial aim is always an aim at some
intensity of feeling both in the occasion itself and in its relevant
future.
Whitehead stresses that every occasion aims at
intensity of feeling not only for itself but for the relevant
future.
In temporal occasions the initial aim is always an aim at some
intensity of feeling both in the occasion itself and in its relevant
future.13... The relations
of an individual's own
future and those
of others introduce tensions that are highly relevant to man's ethical thinking.14 In God, however, there are no such tensions because the ideal strength
of beauty for himself and for the world coincide.15 Hence, we may simplify and say that God's aim is at ideal strength
of beauty and that this aim is eternally unchanging.
There he says concerning the subjective aim
of a concrescence: «The subjective aim, whereby there is origination
of conceptual
feeling, is at
intensity of feeling (a) in the immediate subject, and (ß) in the relevant
future» (Cat.
That «relevant
future» Whitehead further explains: «The relevant
future consists
of those elements in the anticipated
future which are
felt with effective
intensity by the present subject by reason
of the potentiality for them to be derived from itself» (PR 27).