Word: whitehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conformance with the wishes of his widow, the memorial service for Alfred North Whitehead hold at Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon dispensed with all eulogy. A throng of over 300 friends and admirers led by President Conant attended the service...
...interpret Alfred North Whitehead's imponderable work and thought the CRIMSON invited the views of Paul Weiss, professor of Philosophy at Yale and editor of the "Review of Metaphysics," who worked for his master's and doctor's degrees under the tutelage of Whitehead here from 1927 to 1929. This is the second half of Professor Weiss' discussion...
According to "Process and Reality," this universe is made up of a host of beings. Whitehead called them "actual occasions." Each was a point where the finished met the possible, where the ideas of God joined history, where the physical was interwoven with the mental. Each according to him, "prehended," laid hold of and made internal to itself all that lay beyond it, in the world that had been and in the world that might be, to constitute a novel present unity. Each was the juncture of the whole of the past and the whole of the future...
...located, here and not in some sense also there, without significance for anything beyond it. But just what meaning the rest of the universe had for this particular thing only this particular thing could decide and then only when and as it came to be. Each being, according to Whitehead, made itself be what it was. Each was an adventure in self-creation, an adventure which looked backwards for material and forwards for guidance, but which was finally performed in the solitude of absolute privacy. This was true both of those actual occasions we locate in men and of those...
...because not subject to the vicissitudes of scientific fashions, is a more enduring book. But not for that reason alone. It will, I believe, be read, pondered and discussed long after all of us are gone. It is a classic of our time, a wise book, a mellow one. Whitehead felt that it was his best. At once profound and lucid, original and erudite, comprehensive and detailed, it deals with the roots and fruits of cosmology, religion, art, ethics and civilization. In a hundred different ways it points up the limitations of language, of scholarship, of traditional science and religion...