著者

濱崎 洋子

出版者

日本ホワイトヘッド・プロセス学会

雑誌

プロセス思想 (ISSN:21853207)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.91-107, 2019 (Released:2020-12-28)

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In the theory of Whitehead’s organic philosophy, the concept of feelings is structured as important elements of actual entity. On the occasion that he structures the theory of prehending actual entity, the concept of feelings is influenced by the view of nature of English poets. He overcomes the dualism of society by the theory which the concept of feelings is constituted in the organic view of nature. When he thinks the relation of English poetic literature and the mechanism of science, he selects Wordsworth and Shelley. Because, Wordsworth praises the nature but refuses the science, on the other hand, Shelley praises the science and expresses the poem of unifying science and nature. Whitehead experiences feelings for nature as prehensive unities by enjoying Wordsworth’s poems. Shelley’s view of nature is expressed by characters of beauty and color. It is the organic nature functioning with all experience. Particularly, Shelley thinks that human beings enjoy the eternal soul by the connection of feelings through the aesthetic intuition and words expressing the aesthetic consciousness. Both Wordsworth and Shelley recognize the eternal soul as aesthetic values of nature. Whitehead explains six notions of change, value, eternal objects, endurance, organism, and interfusion, for the philosophy of nature. Whitehead explains that the eternal soul (universality) in nature is the essential character of religious spirit. To enjoy the aesthetic intuition in the nature means a unity of bodily experience, and connects the religion and the art. For changing the social consciousness, Whitehead emphasizes the development of our faculties of enjoying the beauty