Alfred North Whitehead
Noun
Meaning
English philosopher and mathematician who collaborated with Bertrand Russell (1861-1947)
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Examples
Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making (New York: Fordham University Press, 1996), 60. In this way the individual and universal/social aspects of religion are mutually dependent.
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 15. It is the task of religion to make philosophy applicable to the everyday lives of ordinary people.
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 342. Here Whitehead is criticizing Christianity for defining God as primarily a divine king who imposes his will on the world, and whose most important attribute is power.
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Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality (New York: The Free Press, 1978), 346. In other words, God saves and cherishes all experiences forever, and those experiences go on to change the way God interacts with the world.
Alfred North Whitehead, Religion in the Making (New York: Fordham University Press, 1996), 18. However, while Whitehead saw religion as beginning in solitariness, he also saw religion as necessarily expanding beyond the individual.