Images of God within Systematic Theology

Bracken, Joseph A.

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“…15 Ibid., [65][66]125, 320-21. Whitehead did not accept Einstein's theory of gravitation as based upon a space-time of variable curvature.…”

Section: Some Relevant Developments In Physics Since Whiteheadmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…See also, Whitehead,Symbolism,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50]. In Newtonian space and time contemporary entities define the same actual world and hence have the "same" past, but relativity dictates that no two actual entities define the same actual world (Whitehead,Process and Reality,(65)(66). What from the perspective of one entity lies in the past may be in the future of a contemporary entity.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…What from the perspective of one entity lies in the past may be in the future of a contemporary entity. 18 Whitehead,Process and Reality,[61][62][63][64][65][66]83,318,320. In discussing "perception in the mode of symbolic reference" Whitehead does say a percipient occasion can directly prehend the antecedent entities of its contemporaries perceived in presentational immediacy.…”

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“…63 Bracken, "Proposals for Overcoming the Atomism within Process-Relational Metaphysics," 22n 3. 64 Bracken,Society and Spirit,55,58,[61][62][63][68][69]129,149;Bracken,The Divine Matrix,[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]Bracken,The One in the Many,147,154,167;Bracken,Christianity and Process Thought,17,[57][58]and Bracken,God: Three Who Are One,[66][67][77][78] which is itself somehow structured by the interplay of those same entities. "65 In this way Bracken's more ontologically robust society plays a greater role than Whitehead's notion of society in the transmission of its law-like structure or defining characteristic from one generation of occasions to the next.…”

Section: Bracken On Societies As Fields and Contemporary Actual Entitiesmentioning

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Revising Whitehead’s Notion of Society in the Light of Contemporary Physics

Pugliese

2015

Open Theology

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This article argues that Joseph A. Bracken's revisions of Alfred North Whitehead's derivative notion of "society" are plausible in view of developments in physics since Whitehead. In particular, Bracken argues that Whitehead's derivative notion of "society" should rather be a category of existence equiprimordial with "actual entity," and that contemporary actual entities in concrescence do influence each other as they directly prehend the society as a nexus. The article begins with Whitehead's view of the metaphysical project as empirical, tentative, and subject to ongoing revision. Next, the essay explains Whitehead's view of societies and contemporary actual entities. Following this is a survey of developments in physics since Whitehead that are relevant to his understanding of "society" and contemporary actual entities. The article then explains how Bracken differs from Whitehead on these points and argues that the physics developments corroborate Bracken's proposed revisions to Whitehead. The essay ends with a restatement of Whitehead's view of metaphysics as provisional and in need of ongoing revision. IntroductionThroughout his career Joseph A. Bracken has worked on revising the Whiteheadian notion of a "society" of actual occasions in ways that he holds are scientifically and philosophically necessary. Whitehead himself sought to construct a rigorously empirical metaphysics that included the revolutions in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century in addition to developments in modern philosophy. He repeatedly and unequivocally urged the tentative nature of metaphysics as always open to revision pending new data.1 Here I attempt to demonstrate the plausibility of Bracken's revisions of Whiteheadian societies by: (1) summarizing Whitehead's position; (2) surveying some germane developments in physics since Whitehead; and (3) explaining how Bracken's revisions better accord with the data. Substance and Actual EntityAs this treatment necessarily references Whitehead's category of actual entity, and as this category replaces Aristotle's first category of being, "substance" or ousia, I'll begin with a few words about substance and actual entity.

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“…15 Ibid., [65][66]125, 320-21. Whitehead did not accept Einstein's theory of gravitation as based upon a space-time of variable curvature.…”

Section: Some Relevant Developments In Physics Since Whiteheadmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Some Relevant Developments In Physics Since Whiteheadmentioning

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Section: Bracken On Societies As Fields and Contemporary Actual Entitiesmentioning

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Revising Whitehead’s Notion of Society in the Light of Contemporary Physics

Pugliese

2015

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“…The conditions for the existence of W ij and L are called the Helmholtz conditions [10]. If a Lagrangian L exists, then W ij is given by…”

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Determination of the Electromagnetic Lagrangian from a System of Poisson Brackets

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2005

Int J Theor Phys

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“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage”: The institutional and communitarian possibilities of “gated communities”

Lai

2016

Land Use Policy

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This paper examines the nature of the "community" in "gated communities" as a globalizing form of housing development; discusses factors for the enmity this form attracts; argues that the global trend in gating need not be socially destructive, as warned by critics; and suggests principles for shaping the governance of these communities with subsidiarity and solidarity in mind. It uses four case studies to demonstrate the applicability of these principles or otherwise.Although the economic exclusionary nature of such communities may restrict access, the varied housing designs and diverse architectural styles (Pow, 2009) offer visual compensation. Further, if key stakeholders -including residents and builders -are to have a say in the shaping of places, then the formation of gated communities represents one vision of a (potentially) sustainable community. (Rogerson et al. 2010: p.516; Emphasis author's) 1 The countryside of the Czech Republic seems to be an exception. See Temelová, Novák, and Jíchová (2014).

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Images of God within Systematic Theology

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Revising Whitehead’s Notion of Society in the Light of Contemporary Physics

Revising Whitehead’s Notion of Society in the Light of Contemporary Physics

Determination of the Electromagnetic Lagrangian from a System of Poisson Brackets

“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage”: The institutional and communitarian possibilities of “gated communities”

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