Whitehead's Religious Thought : From Mechanism to Organism, from Force to Persuasion

Dombrowski, Daniel A.

State University of New York Press（2018/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 204 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438464305
• DDC分類 210

Full Description

Presents the process theistic thought of Whitehead as a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism.

This original interpretation of the religious thought of Alfred North Whitehead highlights Whitehead's moves from mechanism to organism, and from force to persuasion to offer a third alternative between classical theism and religious skepticism. Daniel A. Dombrowski argues that the move from force to persuasion, in particular, is not only fundamental to Whitehead's own thought and to process thought in general, but is a necessary condition for the continuing existence of civilized life. Following this line of analysis, Dombrowski demonstrates Whitehead's relevance to contemporary work in philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and environmental ethics by placing him in dialogue with six major thinkers: David Ray Griffin, Isabelle Stengers, John Rawls, Charles Hartshorne, Judith Butler, and William Wordsworth.

Contents

Introduction
Abbreviations of Works by Whitehead

1. Griffin's Panexperientialism as Perennial Philosophy

2. Stengers on Whitehead on God

3. Rawlsian Political Liberalism and Process Thought

4. Hartshorne, the Process Concept of God, and Pacifism

5. Butler and Grievable Lives

6. Wordsworth, Whitehead, and the Romantic Reaction

Bibliography
Index of Names