Sentences with phrase «internally related to the world»
Since God is internally related to the world, divine knowledge is an immediate, sympathetic awareness (see, e.g., Hartshorne, «Philosophical and Religious Uses of «God» «in Process Theology: Basic Writings, edited by Ewert Cousins, page 109; also see Schubert Ogden, «The Reality of God,» p. 123 of the same volume and Jantzen 1984, 81 ff.).
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In this connection he considered the possibility that the living occasions in the cell might constitute a single personally ordered society rather than a nonsocial nexus.21 That would mean that at any moment there would be a single living cellular occasion internally related to the world rather than a great multiplicity of minuscule occasions to which severally the internal relations of the cell must be attributed.
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Because each actuality is internally related to its own world, it can not change (PR 92).
Key concepts in the new consciousness are: subject, felt relations, internal relations, sympathy richness of experience, creative solitude, hope, faith affection new being, ultimate concern (= God), compassion and God's action in the world as internally related to all individual entities from protons to people.
It means internally relating to (feeling) actual occasions in the world.
The answer to the question is, «Yes, God internally relates to (includes in himself) the world.»
Where, in the standard case, the subject is internally related to the object of perception, with God it is the reverse: the subject (God) is externally related, so that his perception of the world makes no difference at all to him.
Moreover, Hartshorne affirms that he does not contradict himself when he asserts the additional twin theses that every concrete entity is a subject (or has objects of knowledge) and that every such entity must be an object for some (anyone will do) subject.31 Furthermore, he argues that only the panpsychistic doctrine of an ocean of subjects internally related to their objects of knowledge can make sense of our deeply ingrained conception of the world as a real nexus of temporal succession of cause - effect relationships.