Sentences with phrase «societies of actualities»

When Peirce discusses individuals, he is writing about what for me are sequential societies of actualities, not single actualities.

The process theory of sequential societies of actualities, each of which is created and then persists thereafter as an objectified datum of prehension in later actualities, seems calculated to take the complexities into account more definitely and naturally than any talk about a rigorous continuity of action defining a single, identical, yet changing individual.

They are the societies of actualities, and they are what exists.

Hartshorne and many others have argued that Whitehead should have talked of God as «an enduring society of actualities, not a single actuality.

Not exact matches

The ultimate aim of the formation of all movements were to create a beloved community in America, an integrated society wherein brotherhood would be an actuality in every aspect of social life.

We hold that the test for actuality is the ability to act, to exert power and influence on the coming to be of individual quantum events and larger societies of occasions.

Furthermore, precisely as a community (or, in Whiteheadian terms, a structured society), they possess a higher unity and greater actuality than would theoretically be possible for each of them as individual persons, i.e., as separate personally ordered societies.

None of this would be possible unless actuality is granted to societies of occasions, and not just to occasions.

«What is inexorable in God, is valuation as an aim towards order»; and «order» means «society» permissive of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts.

2 This seems more adequate and convincing than Whitehead's theory of a biological organism's being a society of epochal subjects, where ongoing integrity, physical or personal, is the task of many actualities, not of an enduring, self - constituting subject.

And apart from the actuality of such individual effort, the efficacy of society is only a potency waiting to be realized.

It is real in the actuality of many, but ideally one insofar as the many individuals of society strive to create a social environment which is truly civilized.

In the latter, a higher - level of actuality has emerged, thereby giving the society as a whole a unity of experience and activity Kim's position, however, does not allow for such a distinction: «Atoms and their mereological aggregates exhaust all of concrete existence....

That this is indeed to be expected follows from two other features of this metaphysical position: the distinction between lower and higher levels of individual actualities, and the distinction between genuine individuals and aggregational societies of such.

Again, panexperientialism agrees — with one (all - important) proviso: that such things are not individual actualities but aggregates or aggregational societies of individuals.

In virtue of its comprehensiveness as a metaphysical category, therefore, the term society is much more suitable than the term substance to describe the various ontological totalities encountered in human experience.4 Yet this key insight into the ontological actuality of Whiteheadian societies is easily lost from view unless one ponders what Hegel was trying to express with the somewhat elusive notion of Spirit.

Because Whitehead conceives the human psyche not to be a single actuality, but a temporally - ordered society of occasions of experience, and further believes all actual entities to be occasions of experience, he is able to use «the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediate present occasion of experience with one's immediately past occasions... to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature» (AI 284).

This is because there is no one series of higher - level actualities («dominant occasions») within the society which can coordinate the activities of the myriad members.

Not only the spontaneous self - creativity of the individual but the social order which makes possible that particular exercise of spontaneity is essential for intense value - experience Indeed Whitehead says that» «order» means «society» permissive of actualities with patterned intensity of feeling arising from adjusted contrasts» (PR 244 / 373f.).

The body is a vast society of societies; the mind or psyche is a single, personally ordered society whose primary immediate data are indistinctly intuited momentary actualities forming the bodily societies.

But for Whitehead, nature's «problem» can be solved only if two mutually - dependent kinds of emergences are occurring: (a) more complex societies of occasions must emerge if there is to be (b) the emergence of higher - grade individual occasions which then are the final loci of actuality and value.

Any member of a set of interacting individuals (each a sequence or society of momentary actualities) is influenced by all others;

«If we understand the exhibition as a form of communication, it does not simply comment on actualities in our society such as widespread discrimination, bias or deliberate misinformation, but rather it presents a complex view of the real, with no one dominant view, a reality formed by a vibrant and brilliant multitude of perspectives» said Delahunty.

Having highlighted the risks of a society fascinated by consumption for over 50 years, the work of Jannis Kounellis once again confirms its astonishing actuality.

We're subscribing to society's view of what we should do and in actuality, we're not happy about it.