Immediacy does not just mean to do things fast, we all need to be responsive.
In accordance with the propositions Whitehead gives, the retention of subjective
immediacy does not imply the impossibility of objective immortality!
Because of this incompleteness God's subjective
immediacy does not end, despite God's always having a specific satisfaction, and that is why there is, only in God's case, no perishing, With respect to all these points my argumentation rests on the reversal of poles in God (by which an aim is possible for God which is formally independent of any concrete actual world, while Christian does not use God's reversed polar structure but uses God's everlastingness as his main argument.
Is there any sense in which such
immediacy does not fade?
Over against Ford and me, Hartshorne and Cobb claim that the subjective
immediacy does not perish and is available for being prehended by subsequent occasions.
Yet presentational
immediacy does disclose the extensive relations of possible standpoints in that world.
Admittedly presentational
immediacy does not constitute symmetrical prehensions between contemporary occasions.
Tugging the compact Momo Prototipo steering wheel to the right, the enormous 295 / 30R -18 Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s at all four corners pull me toward the road's edge with an immediacy I didn't expect.
Not exact matches
The sense of
immediacy associated with this makes users feel like they are experiencing unique, exclusive content the masses on Facebook and Instagram don't have access to.
Volcker, capital requirements, etc., drive up the cost of
immediacy, but they don't increase the risk of a crash, because bond dealers were never in the business of buying all the bonds all the way down.
In
doing so, market - makers provide «
immediacy services» to clients and other market participants.
From whirlwind celebrity romances to your best friend moving halfway across the country to be with a guy she's known for a month, the phrase «love makes you
do crazy things» is never more true than in our current culture of
immediacy.
But Anvari articulates them with more honesty and
immediacy than
do many of the Iranian filmmakers who are the toast of Cannes and Berlin.
If he
did mean to affirm that in God's consequent nature temporal occasions retain their own subjective
immediacy, then considerable speculative development would be required to explain it.
Living as we
do in a more sterilized and abstracted world of steel, plastic, and fiberglass, the organic, tactile
immediacy of the world Hansen depicts is arresting.
This
does not mean that meaning is to be won through any analytical or synthetic reflection upon the lived concrete but through «living action and suffering itself, in the unreduced
immediacy of the moment.»
It would not be too farfetched or inaccurate to say that Darwinism in its deeper and persistent effects, as these became manifest in science and industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and, through them, in other cultural disciplines and activities, contributed to, if in fact it
did not create, a new ethos in Western society, dedicated to the task of dealing with the
immediacies of existence in their practical aspect.
Now the shift in mode of thought and sensibilities which has marked our recent thinking as a post-Darwinian era has to
do chiefly with the reconception of this preoccupation with
immediacies.
Whitehead
does the epoché in his systematic avoidance of the vivid sensa of presentational
immediacy and the symbolic reference of the «common - sense» world.
It
does not seem to be the sense of causal awareness that the lower living things lack, so much as the variety of sense - presentation, and then vivid distinctness of presentational
immediacy.
Emptiness is the
immediacy of whatever we are
doing or undergoing.
It belongs to the ultimate texture of experience, with the same evidence as
does presentational
immediacy.
In light of this definition, let me suggest an answer to a question raised above: 25 What
did Whitehead mean by «the contemporary nexus perceived in the mode of presentational
immediacy»?
unless God is given I
do not see how he could be inferred, for the foundation of inference beyond
immediacy seems to me necessarily the reality of God as the ground of world order.
Insofar as it treats the relatedness of prehensions, this has to
do with strains which are closely associated with the perception of the con - temporary world in presentational
immediacy.
But this
does not mean that an inherited «original sin» is able to remove
immediacy between God and man.
But Kafka, the Jew, also knows that God's hiding Himself
does not diminish the
immediacy: «In the
immediacy He remains the Saviour and the contradiction of existence becomes for us a theophany.»
While Hartshorne thus holds that the completeness of God's prehensions is such that the subjective
immediacy is retained in God, it is clear that he
does not associate this with immortality; to the contrary, he reverts to the language of objective immortality.
This is a desperate error, or rather a desperate mistake, which overlooks (yes, and what is worse, it overlooks the fact that what it overlooks is pretty nearly the best thing that can be said of a man, since far worse often occurs)-- it overlooks the fact that the majority of men
do never really manage in their whole life to be more than they were in childhood and youth, namely,
immediacy with the addition of a little dose of self - reflection.
When
immediacy despairs it possesses not even enough self to wish or to dream that it had become what it
did not become.
The way in which the reflexive verb is presented in the French suggests a tighter, internal
immediacy than what we may be tempted to read into the English... «s» influencent» sounds much less like an actual multiplicity than
does the phrase «influence each other.
Or he will seek forgetfulness in sensuality, perhaps in debauchery, in desperation he wants to return to
immediacy, but constantly with consciousness of the self, which he
does not want to have.
For
immediacy doubtless
does not know; but never
does reflection catch its prey so surely as when it makes its snare out of nothing, and never is reflection so thoroughly itself as when it is... nothing.
The sense in which this is true must be explored; it will suffice at the moment if we repeat once again that «memorial» here
does not indicate mental reverie but rather a genuine and vital re-call of the past into the
immediacy of present experience.
But this is the only way
immediacy knows how to fight, the one thing it knows how to
do: to despair and swoon — and yet it knows what despair is less than anything else.
If outward help comes, then life returns to the despairer, he begins where he left off; he had no self, and a self he
did not become, but he continues to live on with only the quality of
immediacy.
Properly speaking,
immediacy has no self, it
does not recognize itself, so neither can it recognize itself again, it terminates therefore preferably in the romantic.
This natural «almost instinctive»
immediacy of the interrelated truths, or «counterparts», concerning God, our own minds and our own physical environment is we think, as
did Newman, in tension with theories of that knowledge is mediated by the process of abstraction.
One obvious puzzle about presentational
immediacy has to
do with the ambiguous status of the sense - data.
By this he means that because God
does not perish, the values that are prehended in him are forever - in the
immediacy of his experience.
But a fundamental problem with his account remains:
does the person retain his subjective
immediacy?
But the past fades, i.e., the present fact
does not have the past fact with it in any full
immediacy.
If the answer is «Yes,» then people
do have an everlasting subjective
immediacy.
Does the presiding personality retain its subjective immediacy and does it continue to expand its routes of occasi
Does the presiding personality retain its subjective
immediacy and
does it continue to expand its routes of occasi
does it continue to expand its routes of occasions?
Indeed, I
do not believe one is distorting or modernizing the teaching of Jesus when one denies that even for him the whole meaning of the
immediacy of the kingdom was exhausted by the expected future crisis.
Does this mean that the «living
immediacy» of temporal occasions is preserved in the consequent nature of God?
To claim, as process thinkers
do, that the self is the momentary self in its subjective
immediacy goes not only contrary to the insights of the inherited tradition and common sense but presents a serious philosophical problem.
My own interpretation of Whitehead takes account of two distinctive functions in the consequent nature: one of memory in which the entire past is preserved as an object of vivid
immediacy, and the other of future envisagement which includes only those elements of the past which contribute to and
do not derogate from the creative advance toward higher perfections.
Whoever thinks this
does not yet grasp the fact that what he apprehends has come into existence; he has before him only the present content of a sensory and cognitive
immediacy, in which coming into existence is not contained.
He
does not seek to explain why God's kingdom has been delayed so long, for he was grasped by its
immediacy.