Mind in Nature
Bridging Process Philosophy and Neoplatonism
1st Edition
Published on 27. January 2021
242 pages
978-1-5275-6515-9 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of essays written by leading Whitehead scholars bridges two important philosophical movements in Western philosophy separated by many centuries: Neo-Platonism and Process Philosophy. It focuses on a variety of topics, which can be found in both theories, including creativity, temporality, holism, potentiality, causality, evolution, organism, and multiplicities. They all concur with an integral, natural worldview, showing that wholeness, complexity, and indivisibility are prevalent in Nature. All in all, it brings together Neo-Platonism and Process Philosophy through the impact the former had on the latter. This volume shows that process philosophy can contribute to an integral worldview as it draws on ancient philosophy, setting new paradigms for novel approaches to nature, science and metaphysics.
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Maria-Teresa Teixeira | Aljoscha Berve | Moirika Reker
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Bridging Process Philosophy and Neoplatonism
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Michael Wagner 1952-2020
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- The End of Final Causality in Plotinus' Process Understanding of Nature and Order
- Uneasy Rapprochement of the Neoplatonic Eternity and Christian Historicity in the Thought of Ioane Petritsi
- Schopenhauer and Platonic Metaphysics
- Whitehead's Appropriation of Plato's xora
- Unity and Multiplicity
- A Bergsonian Reading of Plotinus' Theory of Time
- The Unity between Beauty and Good
- Infinity and Unity
- The World 'Hangs Together'
- God and Creation in A.N. Whitehead and Dionysius the Areopagite
- Saint Augustine's Numerical Aesthetics in the Light of Process Metaphysics
- Nature With or Without Mind?
- Symbolism and Dialogue
- The Concepts of "Creation" in the Late Philosophy of A. N. Whitehead
- A Process of Merging the Interior and Exterior Reality
- Afterword
- Contributors
