George Allan

Whitehead's Radically Temporalist Metaphysics (eBook, ePUB)

Recovering the Seriousness of Time

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Whitehead's Radically Temporalist Metaphysics: Recovering the Seriousness of Time, George Allan argues that Whitehead's introduction of God into his process metaphysics renders his metaphysics incoherent. This notion of God, who is the reason for both stability and progressive change in the world and who is both the infinite source of novel possibilities and the everlasting repository for the finite values, inserts into a reality that is supposedly composed solely of finite entities an entity both infinite and everlasting. By eliminating this notion of God, Allan draws on the temporalist foundation of Whitehead's views to recover a metaphysics that takes time seriously. By turning to Whitehead's later writings, Allan shows how this interpretation is developed into an expanded version of the radically temporalist hypothesis, emphasizing the power of finite entities, individually and collectively, to create, sustain, and enhance the dynamic world of which we are a creative part.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793620040
• Artikelnr.: 60513474

Autorenporträt

George Allan's work as a writer includes articles for several Canadian magazines, stage plays, and television writing, including situation comedies, and dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He is a charter member of the Writers Guild of Canada. No Ending is Allan's debut novel. Researching the book, he spent time on the street with detective units and uniformed law enforcement personnel in Toronto and Vancouver. Allan lives in Southern Ontario with his wife, Katherine.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: The God That Failed
Chapter Two: The Power of the Present
Chapter Three: The Power of the Past
Chapter Four: The Shadow of Truth
Chapter Five: Erotic Power
Chapter Six: Metaphoric Power
Chapter Seven: The Solemnity of the World
Bibliography
About the Author