Whitehead has called this transcendent
source of the aim at the new the principle of limitation, the organ for novelty, the lure for feeling, the eternal urge of desire, the divine Eros, and God in his Primordial Nature.
On page 104 Carpenter summarizes from A Christian Natural Theology the four sources of influence on a human occasion as if they were four
sources of aims.
It also provides the power of the future as operative in the present as
the source of those aims we seek to realize in faith.
Not exact matches
In response to a Twitter question
aimed at Graham from David Heinemeier Hansson, founder
of open -
source framework for programmers Ruby on Rails and project management software Basecamp, Altman provided a preliminary look into the fund's position.
May 2 - The Trump administration has invited a group
of U.S. senators to the White House early next week to discuss biofuels policy, the latest in a series
of such meetings
aimed at helping refiners cope with the Renewable Fuel Standard, according to two
sources familiar with the matter.
Aims to
source 100 %
of its agricultural feedstocks from sustainable agriculture and to improve the lives
of 1 billion people.
WASHINGTON, March 21 - The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 15 South Sudanese oil operators that it said were important
sources of cash for the government, an action
aimed at increasing pressure on President Salva Kiir to end the country's conflict and humanitarian crisis.
The
source of the controversy is a DeepMind app that
aims to suss out which patients are at risk for kidney disease.
These patents are
aimed at specific algorithms or technologies buried in the depths
of source code, rather than features that end - users directly interact with and perceive.
He is the co-founder and CEO
of GitHub, a San Francisco - based developer platform that
aims to help users write and host code, manage open and closed -
source projects, build software, apps and websites while interacting with others in the community.
While gadgets are often a
source of «complexity, frustration and headaches» for the nation's 76 million baby boomers, said AARP chief JoAnn Jenkins in a statement, the RealPad
aims to help them embrace «the benefits
of technology such as connecting with family, friends, communities and enjoying books, games and learning.»
The
aim of GOSH is to bring together open
source hardware enthusiasts from the science and tech world in order to create strategies for advancing the movement.
Spotify is
aiming to file its intention to float its stock on the public markets with US regulators toward the end
of this year,
sources said.
Emaar Malls bid is independent
of Noon, the
source said,
aimed at complementing the retail unit's brick - and - mortar sales by introducing services such as «click and collect.»
A
source close to Univision said the Onion deal isn't an isolated move, but instead should be seen as part
of a series
of moves
aimed at appealing to more diverse and younger audiences.
For those uninitiated, Startup America is a White House partnership with AOL co-founder Steve Case and the Kauffman and the Case Foundations, with the
aim to increase «the number
of new, high - growth firms that are creating economic growth, innovation, and quality jobs; celebrate and honor entrepreneurship as a core American value and
source of competitive advantage; and inspire and empower an ever - greater diversity
of communities and individuals to build great American companies.»
With the aid
of WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, Signal has launched The Signal Foundation, a nonprofit
aimed at creating the next generation
of open -
source privacy technology.
The federal government will pledge action in the Throne Speech
aimed at eliminating the gap between the sticker price
of consumer goods sold in Canada and the U.S.,
sources say — part
of a new populist agenda that will require little extra spending in cash - strapped Ottawa.
As a continuation
of its ethical
sourcing commitment, Starbucks will launch a pilot program with select coffee farmers in Costa Rica, Colombia and Rwanda to develop next - level data technology to log and share real - time information along the journey
of coffee beans with the
aim of driving positive impact to smallholder farmers within its supply chain.
Created by Charles Hoskinson — a co-founder
of Etheruem — Cardano is a fully open
source and public decentralized blockchain, developing a smart contract platform
aiming to deliver more complex and advanced features than any platform out there.
«The consortium
of 40 + banks (known as R3cev) which
aims to do just that will inevitably develop something which: is permissioned (for users and developers like the apple app store), privatized, has fees, will not be entirely transparent to everyone, will not be open -
source, it will definitely be inflationary to accommodate monetary policy
of debasement and fractional reserve schemes, it will facilitate negative interest rates, central control
of accounts for suspension / freezing
of funds, bail - ins, bail outs, capital controls and transactions will include the identity
of both sender and receiver and store that information in a centralized location for the convenience
of hackers.»
Tech giant Microsoft has released its own version
of Linux, a free open -
source operating system, with an
aim to secure millions...
Image
Source If your
aim is to improve the ranking
of your website on Google SERP — congratulations.
While this isn't the first meeting between the leaders
of its kind,
sources say this one has been
aimed at hashing out issues
of leadership, the entity's technological progress and questions about what the priority should be for the Advanced Technology Group (ATG), the name
of Uber's self - driving unit.
Using its open
source public blockchain asset, LuxCoin's implementation
of smart contracts and SegWit is
aimed at enhancing the blockchain's usability and transaction speeds.
For its new global fund, Sequoia is already trying to attract investors in China, where fund managers are looking to gain from growing
sources of capital at wealth management firms, insurers and other large domestic institutional investors that
aim to boost returns in alternative assets, the people said.
Because propaganda is
aimed first at the intangible — the shaping
of perceptions — its effects are hard to measure, especially when it comes from invisible
sources.
As this volume amply documents through both Bonhoeffer's own writings and other original
source material, he became deeply enmeshed in treasonous activities
aimed at overthrowing the government
of his beloved Germany.
Then God is seen to be the
source of this initial subjective
aim: III.3.1.
Yet, by cataloguing the diversity
of sources she succeeds in her stated
aim of showing just how broad evangelical intellectual life is.
Monasteries with their dedicated lives, Universities with their search for knowledge, Medicine, Law, methods
of Trade — they represent that
aim at civilization, whereby the conscious experience
of mankind preserves for its use the
sources of Harmony.
But it is also sobering to recall that the one
aim that, by his own avowal, has always lain closest to his heart» reconciliation between the Eastern and Roman Churches» has proven to be the
source of his gravest disappointment, and probably the only manifest failure that can be placed in the balance over against his innumerable successes.
This theme
of God as the
source of initial
aims, mentioned heretofore more or less as an afterthought (T8), warrants expansion in its own section.
It is difficult to conceive, moreover, without some sort
of conceptual elaboration as the nontemporal concrescence, how God could serve as the
source of the initial
aims.
Whitehead's own personal answer to this challenge is to postulate the existence
of a very special entity, a nontemporal actual entity, which he calls God and which he provides with a number
of very special cosmological roles, such as prehending every other actual entity and being the
source of subjective
aim for every other actual entity.
In this final section I will suggest in a tentative manner how the two remaining roles
of God (as ontological ground for eternal objects and as
source of subjective
aims in temporal occasions) could be rendered superfluous in a naturalistic, neo-Whiteheadian, system.
So my twofold task is first to show what it is about the treatment
of eternal objects in Science and the Modern World which makes the Aristotelian move possible, and then secondly to suggest a way
of handling the
source of subjective
aims without there being any need to implicate God in the procedure.
The subjective
aim, which as Ford clarifies it, is a proposition whose logical subjects indicate the past actual world the novel occasion is to unify, guides the feeling
of the nascent subject, the
source of which, for Whitehead, is God (DP 292n9).
A solution the pope proposes for combating fake news on an individual basis: Listen to diverse
sources instead
of engaging with homogenous news environments: «Praiseworthy efforts are being made to create educational programs
aimed at helping people to interpret and assess information provided by the media, and teaching them to take an active part in unmasking falsehoods, rather than unwittingly contributing to the spread
of disinformation.»
to be logically impossible.95 If, however, Neville's demand for an ontological analysis can be sustained, Whiteheadians may then be forced to deal with the problems
of being and the one and the many (perhaps by wedding Neville's Platonic - Augustinian ontology to process metaphysics, a possibility Neville himself entertains].96 Even so, two
of Neville's most crucial claims remain debatable: (1) that indeterminate Being - Itself — without definiteness and beyond description — is supremely deserving
of religious devotion, 97 and (2) that the process God — personal, the pervasive
source of moral ideals, and the supreme agent in the achievement
of these
aims — is not.
The problem is not the need to explain continuity as explained by determinism, but the need to explain originality which in turn leads to the concept
of God as the
source of»... the initial
aim from which self - causation starts» and evolves into people who are self - creating entities, actively participating in their own creation, capable
of creating novelty and assuming responsibility.
Since God is the
source of each initial
aim, it follows that God is uniquely the ground or
source of the origination
of each becoming occasion.
The
aim for most occasions seems to be that the
aim be experienced as a possibility for actualization without reference to its
source, but in some instances realization
of the reference to the
source may be a part
of the
aim.
First, the primordial or eternal nature
of God as the principal
of abstraction or originality and the
source of the initial
aim, and second, the consequent or temporal nature
of God in which God, as part
of reality, interacts with the rest
of reality.
The question is: «What ideas flow into the concept
of God as the
source of the initial
aim?»
But God, as the
source of the initial
aim of each entity, provides the best
aim possible for an aesthetic synthesis
of its past and its present possibilities.
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 34) Such characterization
of God's primordial nature does not leave much room to conceive him as the
source of the initial
aim of each actual entity especially when «the initial
aim is the best» (Process and Reality, Corrected Edition, ed.
The most striking difference is that Whitehead's perception
of God as an actual entity made it possible to conceive him as the
source of the initial
aim.
Griffin & Sherburne, New York: The Free Press, 1978, 47) Although the subjective
aim is initiated from an external
source, the concrescing subject has the ability to modify that
aim; the modification
of that
aim is the modification
of what that subject becomes.
The answer is that he changed his conception
of the primordial nature
of God to include God's functioning as the
source of the initial
aim.