Not exact matches
In the preface to Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method, Hartshorne celebrates «our English inheritance
of critical caution and concern for clarity»; he seeks to learn more from Leibniz, «the most lucid metaphysician in the early modern period,» as well as from Bergson, Peirce, James, Dewey, and Whitehead, «five philosophers
of process
of great genius and immense knowledge
of the intellectual and spiritual resources
of this century.
Following Leibniz, both Deleuze and Whitehead agree that the actualization
of individuals and worlds is subject to a condition
of conjunctive
synthesis, conceived, in Deleuze's terms, as «a
method of constructing convergent series» (LS 174) or, in Whitehead's terms, as «that principle by which the many (disjunctively)» become one (conjunctively)» (cf. PR 21).
In such books as Beyond Humanism, Man's Vision
of God, A Natural Theology for Our Time, Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method, and The Logic
of Perfection, Hartshorne has been indefatigable in the presentation
of this «di - polar» position.
During thisperiod our knowledge
of the natural sciences has progressed and there are now significant tensions between the Thomistic
synthesis and what the scientific
method has revealed about our world.
In his review article
of Hartshorne's Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method (PS 2:49 - 67), Robert Neville remarks that «one
of Hartshorne's most important contributions» has been his concern to deal «with problems as formulated by public discussion, usually that
of analytical philosophers.»
We will soon see that more recently he gave a negative answer to the first
of these questions in Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method.
Review
of Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method (hereafter CSPM), Inquirer, London, Feb. 13, 1971, 6.
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This phase aims at the
synthesis of the conflicted or competing «subpersonalities» around the conscious self or ego (a
method for doing this is described later in this chapter).
This
method of creative
synthesis has two particularly important features for the future.
The analysis and
synthesis of the philosopher, the imagination and insight
of the poet and artist, the experience
of the prophet and the mystic — these involve distinctive categories, distinctive
methods, and distinctive languages
of communication.
The chapter headings give us an overview
of the work: Ignorance
of Scripture is ignorance
of Christ: the theological project
of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique
of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological
synthesis; The hermeneutic
of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science
of theology: its mission and
method in the life
of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity
of revelation; The theology
of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history
of salvation; The embrace
of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority
of mystery: the beauty and necessity
of the theologian's task.
I've developed six
of them in my book Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method.
In Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method Charles Hartshorne demonstrates that his is among the few.1
Of course, completeness in a philosophy is relative to what the philosophy says it should contain.
This disturbed processing, embedded as it became in the dialectical
method of inquiry (thesis, antithesis,
synthesis), generated polarized and competing forces: rival powers (such as popes versus emperors), competing orders (such as the simple Franciscans versus the sophisticated Dominicans), competing pieties (such as natural realism versus Gothic symbolism), and competing inquiries (such as nominalism's empiricism versus realism's idealism) The dialectic between spirit and matter was pressed beyond its limits, resulting in both collapse and rigidification.
Let us begin by reformulating the ultimate issue in Hartshorne's terms through a sketch
of his metaphysics derived largely from his Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method.
See, for instance, Whitehead's RM; Hartshorne's Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1970); John B. Cobb, Jr.'s «Buddhist Emptiness and the Christian Cod,» Journal
of the American Academy
of Religion 45/1 (March, 1977), 11 - 26; and Christ in a Pluralistic Age (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975); for several critical dialogues on this issue, see John Cobb's Theology in Process, edited by David Ray Griffin and Thomas J. J. Altizer (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977).
«The Aesthetic Matrix
of Value,» in Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method.
My table
of ultimate contrasts (in Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method) is supposed to throw light on the matter.
A
synthesis of growth concepts and
methods from various psychotherapeutic approaches.
Both topics are the subjects
of chapters in my Creative
Synthesis and Philosophic
Method.
Se √ ± or's own training
methods are a
synthesis of his long apprenticeship with his father's horses in Argentina and his careful observations
of Americans like Ben Jones.
Similar to how biotech experts generate large quantities
of genetically engineered proteins for drugs, this batch
method could slash the cost
of DNA
synthesis to roughly $ 200 per gram, Dietz says.
For example, genetically engineered organisms used in the research laboratory to develop new chemical
synthesis methods are not likely to require the same level
of public dialogue as products that have more uncertainty associated with them, such as organisms with gene drives, which enhance organisms» ability to pass certain genetic traits on to their offspring.
While many
methods are now available for synthesizing amines containing aryl groups, the
synthesis of amines containing alkyl groups still pose a challenge.
They did this using the Merrifield
method of protein
synthesis, which effectively builds up a protein an amino acid at a time.
Chemists at the Institute
of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM), Nagoya University and the JST - ERATO Project have developed a new
method to accomplish the programmed
synthesis of benzene derivatives with five or six different functional groups that enables access to novel functional organic materials that could not have been reached before.
We then improved this
method to extend it to the
synthesis of multi-substituted benzenes.»
A team
of Lehigh University engineers have demonstrated a bacterial
method for the low - cost, environmentally friendly
synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot (QD) nanocrystals at room temperature.
«Biomanufacturing
of CdS quantum dots: A bacterial
method for the low - cost, environmentally - friendly
synthesis of aqueous soluble quantum dot nanocrystals.»
The process, using room temperature mechanical ball milling, provides a lower cost
method to produce these alkali metals which are widely used in industrial processes as reducing and drying agents, precursors in
synthesis of complex metal hydrides, hydrogen storage materials, and in nuclear engineering.
By mimicking the molecular self - assembly process that occurs in living organisms, chemists can learn new
methods of chemical
synthesis of nano / micro-structures.
High - pressure
synthesis (over 10 GPa) is not a commonly used
method in the field
of materials science, write the researchers in their study published in the Journal
of the American Chemical Society.
«This latest finding provides a concise and direct
synthesis pathway that, due to the structure
of the products delivered, will likely be quite valuable for the discovery and development
of therapeutic agents,» says Micalizio, whose work focuses on the design
of organic chemical reaction
methods and strategies to improve medicine and human health.
«We are using
synthesis, processing and characterization
methods that are robust and widely applicable, with an eye toward scaling these
methods to facilitate the future industrial adoption
of block polymers,» says Thomas H. Epps, III, who leads the group.
Li Ying, a retired chemist at the Chinese Academy
of Sciences Institute
of Materia Medica in Shanghai, who worked on the
synthesis of artemisinin derivatives, wrote in an article in 2008 that Tu's
method of extraction and purification yielded crystals containing artemisinin mixed with other chemicals, giving rise to toxicity in clinical trials.
A new slow - motion
method of controlling the
synthesis of polymers, which takes inspiration from both trees and Celtic Knots, opens up new possibilities in areas including medical devices, drug delivery, elastics and adhesives.
However, in reality this
synthesis method could be used for a wide range
of materials outside the biomedical field.»
«Future research will focus on pushing the size limits
of chemical protein
synthesis even further and developing
methods to improve the efficiency, quality, and yield
of the synthetic process,» says Jacobsen.
«This
method should allow
synthesis of gram quantities
of few - layer - thick molybdenum disulfide sheets, which is very crucial for applications such as flexible batteries, supercapacitors, and polymer composites.
For the last two years the researchers have been developing new
methods for quick and cost - effective
synthesis of atomically thin two - dimensional materials — graphene, molybdenum and tungsten disulfide — in gram quantities, particularly for rechargeable battery applications.
DAG proceeds in a low chemical yield
of 40 percent by this
synthesis method, with the remaining 60 percent
of the possible product being lost.
Using their new
method, the researchers demonstrated the
synthesis of a fluoroalkene compound designed to mimic the biologically active molecule atorvastatin.
Thus, although the conventional graphene fabrication
method of chemical vapor deposition is widely used for the large - area
synthesis of graphene on copper and nickel films, the
method is not suited for silicon microelectronics, as chemical vapor deposition would require a high growth temperature above 1,000 degrees Celsius and a subsequent transfer process
of the graphene from the metallic film to the silicon.
«Our
synthesis method is controllable and scalable, allowing us to obtain graphene as large as the size
of the silicon wafer [over 300 millimeters in diameter],» Kim said.
Plasma
synthesis, which consumes large amounts
of energy and involves significant material wastage, is another generally used
method.
«However, the problem was that in order to move from qualitative to quantitative regimes a large family
of molecules would be required to make the
method robust, but their
synthesis was not reliable,» added Professor Liddle.
The
synthesis method also gives rise to the potential for new strategies for controlling the crystalline phase
of nanomaterials made from the noble metals.
«We were really excited to develop this simple yet powerful
method to achieve the
synthesis of external - stimuli - response materials,» said Professor Kenichiro Itami, director
of the JST - ERATO project and center director
of ITbM.
A team
of Hokkaido University researchers has developed a novel material
synthesis method called proton - driven ion introduction (PDII) which utilizes a phenomenon similar to «ion billiards.»