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1 online resource (xi, 123 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-120) and index. |
| Contents |
Being and becoming : a personal preface -- A process-relational world : an adventure that matters -- Imaginative generalization : the search for a comprehensive vision -- Minds, bodies, and experience : envisioning a unified self -- Experience all the way down : seeking an imaginative leap -- Reality as relational process : substance and process -- Reality as a causal web : a constructive postmodernism -- Unilateral power : power, value, and reality -- Relational power : so what? -- Creativity, freedom, and God : what makes freedom possible? -- Looking ahead : the future of process-relational thought -- Appendix. Getting technical : Whitehead's language. |
| Summary |
Process thought is the foundation for studies in many areas of contemporary philosophy, theology, political theory, educational theory, and the religion-science dialogue. It is derived from Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy, known as process theology, which lays a groundwork for integrating evolutionary biology, physics, philosophy of mind, theology, environmental ethics, religious pluralism, education, economics, and more. In Process-Relational Philosophy, C. Robert Mesle breaks down Whitehead's complex writings, providing a simple but accurate introduction to the vision that. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947. |
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Process philosophy.
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Process philosophy. |
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Relation (Philosophy)
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Relation (Philosophy) |
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Reality.
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Reality. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mesle, C. Robert. Process-relational philosophy. West Conshohocken, Pa. : Templeton Foundation Press, ©2008 9781599471327 (DLC) 2007017844 (OCoLC)124074778 |
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9781599472089 (electronic book) |
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1599472082 (electronic book) |
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9781599471327 (paperback) |
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1599471329 (paperback) |
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