Quotes & Sayings


We, and creation itself, actualize the possibilities of the God who sustains the world, towards becoming in the world in a fuller, more deeper way. - R.E. Slater

There is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which we are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have [consequential effects upon] the world around us. - Process Metaphysician Alfred North Whitehead

Kurt Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem says (i) all closed systems are unprovable within themselves and, that (ii) all open systems are rightly understood as incomplete. - R.E. Slater

The most true thing about you is what God has said to you in Christ, "You are My Beloved." - Tripp Fuller

The God among us is the God who refuses to be God without us, so great is God's Love. - Tripp Fuller

According to some Christian outlooks we were made for another world. Perhaps, rather, we were made for this world to recreate, reclaim, redeem, and renew unto God's future aspiration by the power of His Spirit. - R.E. Slater

Our eschatological ethos is to love. To stand with those who are oppressed. To stand against those who are oppressing. It is that simple. Love is our only calling and Christian Hope. - R.E. Slater

Secularization theory has been massively falsified. We don't live in an age of secularity. We live in an age of explosive, pervasive religiosity... an age of religious pluralism. - Peter L. Berger

Exploring the edge of life and faith in a post-everything world. - Todd Littleton

I don't need another reason to believe, your love is all around for me to see. – Anon

Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all. - Khalil Gibran, Prayer XXIII

Be careful what you pretend to be. You become what you pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Religious beliefs, far from being primary, are often shaped and adjusted by our social goals. - Jim Forest

We become who we are by what we believe and can justify. - R.E. Slater

People, even more than things, need to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone. – Anon

Certainly, God's love has made fools of us all. - R.E. Slater

An apocalyptic Christian faith doesn't wait for Jesus to come, but for Jesus to become in our midst. - R.E. Slater

Christian belief in God begins with the cross and resurrection of Jesus, not with rational apologetics. - Eberhard Jüngel, Jürgen Moltmann

Our knowledge of God is through the 'I-Thou' encounter, not in finding God at the end of a syllogism or argument. There is a grave danger in any Christian treatment of God as an object. The God of Jesus Christ and Scripture is irreducibly subject and never made as an object, a force, a power, or a principle that can be manipulated. - Emil Brunner

“Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh” means "I will be that who I have yet to become." - God (Ex 3.14) or, conversely, “I AM who I AM Becoming.”

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. - Thomas Merton

The church is God's world-changing social experiment of bringing unlikes and differents to the Eucharist/Communion table to share life with one another as a new kind of family. When this happens, we show to the world what love, justice, peace, reconciliation, and life together is designed by God to be. The church is God's show-and-tell for the world to see how God wants us to live as a blended, global, polypluralistic family united with one will, by one Lord, and baptized by one Spirit. – Anon

The cross that is planted at the heart of the history of the world cannot be uprooted. - Jacques Ellul

The Unity in whose loving presence the universe unfolds is inside each person as a call to welcome the stranger, protect animals and the earth, respect the dignity of each person, think new thoughts, and help bring about ecological civilizations. - John Cobb & Farhan A. Shah

If you board the wrong train it is of no use running along the corridors of the train in the other direction. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God's justice is restorative rather than punitive; His discipline is merciful rather than punishing; His power is made perfect in weakness; and His grace is sufficient for all. – Anon

Our little [biblical] systems have their day; they have their day and cease to be. They are but broken lights of Thee, and Thou, O God art more than they. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

We can’t control God; God is uncontrollable. God can’t control us; God’s love is uncontrolling! - Thomas Jay Oord

Life in perspective but always in process... as we are relational beings in process to one another, so life events are in process in relation to each event... as God is to Self, is to world, is to us... like Father, like sons and daughters, like events... life in process yet always in perspective. - R.E. Slater

To promote societal transition to sustainable ways of living and a global society founded on a shared ethical framework which includes respect and care for the community of life, ecological integrity, universal human rights, respect for diversity, economic justice, democracy, and a culture of peace. - The Earth Charter Mission Statement

Christian humanism is the belief that human freedom, individual conscience, and unencumbered rational inquiry are compatible with the practice of Christianity or even intrinsic in its doctrine. It represents a philosophical union of Christian faith and classical humanist principles. - Scott Postma

It is never wise to have a self-appointed religious institution determine a nation's moral code. The opportunities for moral compromise and failure are high; the moral codes and creeds assuredly racist, discriminatory, or subjectively and religiously defined; and the pronouncement of inhumanitarian political objectives quite predictable. - R.E. Slater

God's love must both center and define the Christian faith and all religious or human faiths seeking human and ecological balance in worlds of subtraction, harm, tragedy, and evil. - R.E. Slater

In Whitehead’s process ontology, we can think of the experiential ground of reality as an eternal pulse whereby what is objectively public in one moment becomes subjectively prehended in the next, and whereby the subject that emerges from its feelings then perishes into public expression as an object (or “superject”) aiming for novelty. There is a rhythm of Being between object and subject, not an ontological division. This rhythm powers the creative growth of the universe from one occasion of experience to the next. This is the Whiteheadian mantra: “The many become one and are increased by one.” - Matthew Segall

Without Love there is no Truth. And True Truth is always Loving. There is no dichotomy between these terms but only seamless integration. This is the premier centering focus of a Processual Theology of Love. - R.E. Slater

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Note: Generally I do not respond to commentary. I may read the comments but wish to reserve my time to write (or write from the comments I read). Instead, I'd like to see our community help one another and in the helping encourage and exhort each of us towards Christian love in Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior. - re slater

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Biography of Alfred North Whitehead


Alfred North Whitehead

~ Notes and References found at the end of the slide show ~

Page 1 - SOURCES

Page 2 - OUTLINE

Page 3 - LIFE 1

Page 4 - LIFE 2

Page 5 - LIFE 3

Page 6 - LIFE 4

Page 7 - LIFE 5

Page 8 - LIFE 6

Page 9 - WORKS 1

Page 10 - MATHEMATICS & LOGIC 1

Page 11 - MATHEMATICS & LOGIC 2

Page 12 - MATHEMATICS & LOGIC 3

Page 13 - MATHEMATICS & LOGIC 4

Page 14 - PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 1

Page 15 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 1

Page 16 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 2

Page 17 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 3

Page 18 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 4

Page 19 - PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION 5

Page 20 - HISTORY 1

Page 21 - HISTORY 2

Page 22 - MP 1

Page 23 - MP 2

Page 24 - MP 3

Page 25 - MP 4

Page 26 - PROCESS PHILO 1

Page 27 - PROCESS PHILO 2

Page 28 - PROCESS PHILO 3

Page 29 - SUMMARY


Alfred North Whitehead

1. Alfred North Whitehead Jessie Paano Vince Millona BA-I Alfred North Whitehead References: Desmet, R. & Irvine, A. (2018) Alfred North Whitehead. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/ Herstein, G. (2015) Whitehead, Alfred North. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/whitehed/ Bracken, J. (2015). Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. https://www.youtube.com.

2. Alfred North Whitehead I. Life and Works II. Problem of Space III. Problem of History * Mathematics and Logic * Philosophy of Science * Philosophy of Education *Reality IV. Metaphysics *Religion *God V. Process Philosophy

3. Alfred North Whitehead British mathematician and philosopher best known for his work in mathematical logic and the philosophy of science.

4. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1861 Born February 15 in Ramsgate, Isle of Thanet, Kent, England. 1880 Enters Trinity College, Cambridge, with a scholarship in mathematics. 1890 Meets Russell; marries Evelyn Wade. 1884 Elected to the Apostles, the elite discussion club; graduates with a B.A. in Mathematics; elected a Fellow in Mathematics at Trinity.

5. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1903 Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as a result of his work on universal algebra, symbolic logic, and the foundations of mathematics. 1910 Resigns from Cambridge and moves to London. 1911 Appointed Lecturer at University College London.

6. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1912 Elected President of both the South-Eastern Mathematical Association and the London branch of the Mathematical Association for the year 1913. 1914 Appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Imperial College of Science and Technology.

7. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1915 Elected President of the Mathematical Association for the two-year period 1915–1917. 1921 Meets Albert Einstein. 1922 Elected President of the Aristotelian Society for the one- year period 1922–1923. 1924 Appointed Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.

8. Alfred North Whitehead LIFE 1937 Retires from Harvard. 1945 Awarded Order of Merit. 1947 Died December 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

9. Alfred North Whitehead WORKS 1891 Treatise on Universal Algebra 1903 Principia Mathematica (feat. Bertrand Russel) 1924 Science in the Modern World 1924 Adventures of Ideas 1922 The Principle of Relativity 1929 The Aims of Education 1926 Religion in the Making 1929 Process and Reality

10. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 1. Mathematics and Logic In 1884, He began teaching college on Trinity College In the year 1890, Bertrand Russell became his student.

11. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 1. Mathematics and Logic Whitehead saw mathematical logic as a tool to guide the mathematician’s essential activities of intuiting, articulating, and applying patterns, and he did not aim at replacing mathematical intuition (pattern recognition) with logical rigor.

12. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 1. Mathematics and Logic A Treatise on Universal Algebra 1898 The Principles of Mathematics 1903 Principia Mathematica 1910, 1912, 1913

13. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 1. Mathematics and Logic Giuseppe Peano- Makes Whitehead and Russell became aware of the potential of symbolic logic to become the most appropriate tool to rigorously study mathematical patterns.

14. Alfred North Whitehead II. PROBLEM OF SPACE 2. Philosophy of Science Theory of Gravitation- Regarded as dual to Einstein's general relativity. Physics

15. Alfred North Whitehead III. PROBLEM OF HSTORY 1. Philosophy of Education • emphasizes the idea that a good life is most profitably thought of as an educated or civilized life “There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations (Whitehead, 1929).” This view in turn has corollaries for both the content of education and its method of delivery.

16. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education corollaries: A. METHOD OF DELIVERY • Whitehead emphasizes the importance of remembering that a “pupil’s mind is a growing organism … it is not a box to be ruthlessly packed with alien ideas”

17. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education Rhythm of Education1. Romance 2. Precision 3. Generalization has 3 processes corollaries: A. METHOD OF DELIVERY

18. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education corollaries: A. METHOD OF DELIVERY “…we must beware of what I call ‘inert ideas’—that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations.” It is not the job of the educator simply to insert into his students’ minds little chunks of knowledge.

19. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education corollaries: A. METHOD OF DELIVERY Whitehead also stressed the importance of IMAGINATION Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts.

20. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Philosophy of Education corollaries: B. CONTENT OF EDUCATION With regard to content, Whitehead holds that any adequate education must include: • a LITERARY COMPONENT; • a SCIENTIFIC COMPONENT; and • a TECHNICAL COMPONENT. III. PROBLEM OF HSTORY

21. Alfred North Whitehead 2. Religion III. PROBLEM OF HSTORY It isnot necessarilygood. (Taking it so is a dangerous delusion.) For Whitehead, religion served as a kind of bridge between philosophy and the emotions and purposes of a particular society. It is the task of religion to make philosophy applicable to the everyday lives of ordinary people.

22. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Reality IV. METAPHYSICS Scientific Notion: Reality consists of matter. (MATERIALISM) WHITEHEAD: Reality consists of processes. (PROCESS PHILOSOPHY)

23. Alfred North Whitehead 1. Reality IV. METAPHYSICS Concepts such as "quality", "matter", and "form" are problematic. “Identities do not define people, people define identities. Everything changes from moment to moment, and to think of anything as having an "enduring essence" misses the fact that "all things flow.” ”

24. Alfred North Whitehead 2. GOD IV. METAPHYSICS Idea of god differs from traditional monotheistic notions. God is not necessarily tied to religion. Rather than springing primarily from religious faith by metaphysical system.

25. Alfred North Whitehead 2. GOD IV. METAPHYSICS CONSEQUENT NATURE PRIMORDIAL NATURE Eternal and unchanging "the lure for feeling, the eternal urge of desire" God's reception of the world's activity God and the world as fulfilling one another

26. Alfred North Whitehead V. PROCESS PHILOSOPHY Process philosophy is a longstanding philosophical tradition that emphasizes becoming and changing over static being. In actuality, there are no static substances but only events/occasions/processes The smallest processes are called actual entities - drops of experiences that constitute nature

27. Alfred North Whitehead V. PROCESS PHILOSOPHY Actual entities: entities that really exist in the natural world; concrete Abstract entities: also called ‘object’; abstraction one commits the fallacy of MISPLACED CONCRETENESS when an abstract entity is taken as something concrete

28. Alfred North Whitehead CLASSICAL ARISTOTELIAN- THOMISTIC I: Focuses on reaching fixed goal PROCESS I: Working on moving towards a goal that is never truly complete V. PROCESS PHILOSOPHY

29. Alfred North Whitehead Jessie Paano Vince Millona BA-I Alfred North Whitehead References: Desmet, R. & Irvine, A. (2018) Alfred North Whitehead. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/whitehead/ Herstein, G. (2015) Whitehead, Alfred North. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
https://www.iep.utm.edu/whitehed/ Bracken, J. (2015). Process Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. https://www.youtube.com.


Editor's Notes
  1. Process philo is his metap6
  2. HIS UNPUBLISHED WORKS WERE BURNED BY HIS WIFE AS ALFRED’S REQUEST. His published works must be the only basis for his thoughts.
  3. From his 1929 work The Aims of Education *Reax on the negative effect of industrial revolution on education: -focus on tech-voc -focus on sci -focus on lit
  4. The first stage is all about “free exploration, initiated by wonder”, the second about the disciplined “acquirement of technique and detailed knowledge”, and the third about “the free application of what has been learned” By skipping stage one, and never arriving at stage three, bad math teachers deny students the major motivation to love mathematics: the joy of pattern recognition.
  5. Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness of beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful
  6. Imagination works by drawing out general principles and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world.
  7. In considering religion, we should not be obsessed by the idea of its necessary goodness. This is a dangerous delusion. Indeed history, down to the present day, is a melancholy record of the horrors which can attend religion: human sacrifice, and in particular, the slaughter of children, cannibalism, hatred as between races, the maintenance of degrading customs, hysteria, bigotry, can all be laid at its charge. The uncritical association of religion with goodness is directly negative by plain facts.
  8. Matter - objects; unchanging; change is caused by external factors (FORM / ACCIDENS)
  9. It focuses on change rather than unchanging reality; BEING THEN IS BASICALLY further and further BECOMING (I AM THIS IN ORDER TO BECOME MORE). Perfection is not to be found in actuality but in greater and greater potentiality to become more and more (The process metaphysics/philo of organism elaborated in Process and Reality[17] posits an ontology which is based on the two kinds of existence of an entity, that of actual entity and that of abstract entity or abstraction, also called 'object‘) Actual entity is a term coined by Whitehead to refer to the entities that really exist in the natural world.[21] For Whitehead, actual entities are spatiotemporally extended events or processes.[22] An actual entity is how something is happening, and how its happening is related to other actual entities.[22] The actually existing world is a multiplicity of actual entities overlapping one another.[22]
  10. It focuses on change rather than unchanging reality; BEING THEN IS BASICALLY further and further BECOMING (I AM THIS IN ORDER TO BECOME MORE). Perfection is not to be found in actuality but in greater and greater potentiality to become more and more (The process metaphysics/philo of organism elaborated in Process and Reality[17] posits an ontology which is based on the two kinds of existence of an entity, that of actual entity and that of abstract entity or abstraction, also called 'object‘) Actual entity is a term coined by Whitehead to refer to the entities that really exist in the natural world.[21] For Whitehead, actual entities are spatiotemporally extended events or processes.[22] An actual entity is how something is happening, and how its happening is related to other actual entities.[22] The actually existing world is a multiplicity of actual entities overlapping one another.[22] FALLACY OF MISPLACED CONCRETENESS: Ex - Justice is blind; the blind cannot read printed laws; therefore, to print laws cannot serve justice.

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