Sentences with phrase «organic view of the universe»

Whitehead rejected materialism and the dominant interpretation of science which was mechanism for what he called an organic view of the universe.

Gregory of Nyssa's thought is still influential within the Eastern Orthodox tradition which has a more organic view of the universe than the Western church.

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I believe that one of the best routes to the center of Whitehead's perspective is to view his metaphysics as an elaboration of a basic value assumption in which the primacy of process and the ultimacy of constitutive relations reflect a drive in the universe toward the evocation of greater complexity, deeper intensity, and wider range of contrasts within the organic unity of an individual or society.

The church opted for the mechanistic model of the universe, though in many respects the organic view would have been much more supportive of Christian faith.

The interesting question for us is why it is that the church in the West in the sixteenth century and ever since opted with the majority for the mechanistic view of the universe, particularly in view of the fact that the organic view is in many ways more supportive of Christian faith than the victorious mechanistic view.