But one time - system is inadequate to express the passage of events which
is the creative advance of nature.
Either mind is at bottom the same as these elementary prehensions, in which case there
is no creative advance, and life is a mere abstraction from mind as matter is from life, or else it is something genuinely new in which case we have to explain its relation to that out of which it grew.
It is a creative advance devoid of «perishing.»
It deals with Christology and the doctrine of God, as well as prayer, the resurrection, heaven, etc. and it provides a general introduction to Whitehead's thought.128 The Task of Philosophical Theology by C. J. Curtis, a Lutheran theologian, is a process exposition of numerous «theological notions» important to the «conservative, traditional» Christian viewpoint.129 Two very fine semi-popular introductions to process philosophy as a context for Christian theology
are The Creative Advance by E. H. Peters130 and Process Thought and Christian Faith by Norman Pittenger.131 The latter, reflecting the concerns of a theologian, provides a concise introduction to the process view of God together with briefer comments on man, Christ, and «eternal life.»
Each thing actualized in the universe
is itself a creative advance into novelty according to Whitehead.
This argument is inadequate because the universe
is a creative advance into novelty which will never cease.
If with Whitehead one conceives the process of actualization to
be a creative advance, then it makes sense that he posits «conceptual valuation» of the datum as the basic function of the «mental pole,» prior to «conceptual reversion» (PR 26/39, 248/379).
First, Whitehead developed his ideas as he wrote his books; he developed his ideas even during the writing of his major work, Process and Reality, exhibiting his view that reality
is a creative advance into novelty.
But human experience has a continuity in origin from the feelings that constituted the being of the first mammals, the reptiles from which they evolved and all individual entities prior to them in the evolutionary sequence going back to the physicists» initially featureless universe — hence Whitehead's proposition that the cosmic evolution of the universe «
is a creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).
«The universe
is creative advance into novelty» (PR 222).
There
is a creative advance into novelty,» and in this advance God may surprise the world and the world may surprise God.
Not exact matches
A senior designer who came from a large company might
be able to
advance to the position of
creative director by joining a smaller business.
For the most part, they
were still willing to help, but the supporting ideas they offered
were judged significantly less
creative than those
advanced by a separate control group.
Creative chaos It
was in the 1883 novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None, that Nietzsche, in
advancing his concept of the ubermensch, writes, «I tell you: One must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing star.»
This
is true not just in basic jobs like bank tellers and travel agents, but also
advanced professions like medicine, law and
creative work.
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Second, there
is a set of time - systems derived from the whole set of space - time abstractions and this set of derivatives of an abstraction «expresses the totality of those properties of the
creative advance which
are capable of
being rendered explicit in thought» (PNK 81).
If «derived time» follows from something more primordial (for Whitehead,
creative advance as constituted in the subjective immediacy of concrescing actual entities; for Heidegger, the truth of
Being as disclosed in the «openness» which pervades Dasein on the basis of its ecstatic - horizontal temporality), that something must not itself
be time - like, or talk of «derivation»
is otiose.
Thus God's purpose in the
creative advance is the evocation of intensities.
The «
creative advance» which Whitehead says
is «the application of this ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates» (PR 32)
is a conception which, in its first version,
is called «passage.»
Both
are in the grip of the ultimate metaphysical ground, the
creative advance into novelty.»
There would
be no need to «make» God share in man's adventure or
be affected by human actions according to Whitehead, for such
is the nature of God: «Decay, Transition, Loss, Displacement belong to the essence of
Creative Advance» (Al 368 - 69).
Not all events involve a mind, but some do, and it may
be that what gives the character and
creative advance [sic] to the whole of nature and every part of nature
is that there
is operative throughout the whole of nature a Mind.
The only treatment of Ogden's Christology in reference to his use of process philosophy which I have seen
is that by Eugene H. Peters, The
Creative Advance: An introduction to Process Philosophy as a Context for Christina Faith (St. Louis: Bethany, 1966), 112 - 117.
However, though the fact of
creative advance can not
be explained by reference to anything more ultimate than itself, it can and must
be elucidated.
If the following passage from Process and Reality
is at all significant, the answer must
be that that
is precisely what Whitehead means: «The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element in the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the
creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self - identity of things and their mutual diversities» (347f).
The universal value for the world
is found in God's aim for it, and God's purpose «in the
creative advance is the evocation of intensities.»
In other words, the universe's
creative advance leaves in its wake, as it
were, an ever - growing multiplicity of attained actualities.
The process of concrescence itself involves uniting the given past with the novelty of the present (PR l79 - 180 / 272 - 273).6 Uniting novelty with what has always
been can potentially contribute to the
creative advance of the world.
The Category of the Ultimate asserts that the
creative advance «
is the universe always becoming one in a particular unity of self - experience, and thereby adding to the multiplicity which
is the universe as many (PR 89).
In the second sense, the causal objectification within an occasion of its antecedent world may
be construed as the cumulative character of time, or, in more systematic terms, of the
creative advance of actuality.
For Hua - yen, therefore, there
is no room for
creative synthesis, the many can not become one and
are increased by one, for whatever
is has achieved
is «complete ontological cohesiveness and solidarity, but at the expense of
creative advance, emergent newness and the production of novelty» (p. 71).
The
creative advance of actual occasions
is inherently temporal.
Surely, whatever else Whitehead
is saying here, he
is saying that actual occasions
are repeated (qua superjects only, never qua subjects), for among the «elements» in the universe relative to the origination of a novel creature
are all those occasions which have already completed their becoming, i.e., those which
are already superjects; hence, every superject accumulated in the wake of the universe's
creative advance is repeated in each novel creature at the utmost verge of that
advance.
To elucidate it
is to ascertain what the basic units of
creative advance are, how they relate to one another, what generic features they have, and what other metaphysical principles they presuppose.
This mutual relevance, or coherence, of the two principles
is particularly evident when Whitehead says: «The oneness of the universe, and the oneness of each element in the universe, repeat themselves to the crack of doom in the
creative advance from creature to creature, each creature including in itself the whole of history and exemplifying the self - identity of things and of their mutual diversities» (PR 347f).
The universe's
creative advance is the application of... [the] ultimate principle of creativity to each novel situation which it originates» (PR 32).
In religious experience, interpreted within process thought, the physical emotions, purposes, desires, and volitions of individuals
are fused with conceptual insights into the nature of things for the purpose of transforming the individual, of enlarging his or her experience, and of
advancing the
creative process whereby new values emerge.
Thus, the sorts of entities involved in the
creative advance, the what and how of each process of synthesis, and the other metaphysical constraints governing each such process,
are respectively rendered explicit in the Categories of Existence, of Explanation, and of Obligation.
Central to Whitehead's metaphysics in Process and Reality
is his rejection of «the classic notion of «time»» (35): «There
is a prevalent misconception that «becoming» involves the notion of a unique seriality for its [
creative]
advance into novelty» (35).
Finally, the ontological principle establishes the sorts of particular reasons, or of particular causes, that can
be given as explanatory of how and why a particular unit - product of the
creative advance came to have the determinate characters that it has.
One way to reconcile the difficulty
is to allow that persons act through influencing the self - creation of actual occasions, to allow that a person
is grounded in an astronomically large number of occasions as objectified in comparison to the single occasion on the cutting edge of the
creative advance through which a person lives, endures, acts.
The idea of broadcasting as a force in the public interest, a display case for the best of America «
s creative arts, a forum of public debate —
advancing the democratic conversation and enhancing the public imagination — has receded before the inexorable force of audience maximization.11.
Even though the
creative advance of actual entities does not have a unique seriality, actual entities
are still ordered nonserially.
The goal
is to determine the type of order involved in the
creative advance of nexus.
Although the
creative advance of actual entities does not have a unique seriality, their
creative advance is partially ordered.
It
is religious experience which promotes a grasp of those values which
are essential ingredients in and conditions for the
creative advance.
Included in the idea that the
creative advance is not uniquely serial
is the idea that there
is not a unique present state of the universe.
But we understand and judge Whitehead to
be a realist, and so he must have an analysis of
creative advance which gets around the problems that arise when time and space
are allowed to
be isomorphic with the mathematical continuum, the problem with which
is that its series
are dense rather than discrete.
the
creative advance of actual entities and nexus
is ordered nonserially.