If «the nature of evil is that the character of things are
mutually obstructive» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517), then the constant displacement and loss of the past through the activity of the present is most evil, however unavoidable, and no present or future achievement of the world can remedy that situation.
«The nature of evil is that the characters of things are
mutually obstructive» (Process and Reality, An Essay in Cosmology 517).
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 340) 14 But things are
mutually obstructive because man is finite and incapable of incorporating all the data of the past with maximum intensity.
Yet, because of this openness, they often suffer from the ingression of
mutually obstructive feelings.