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)

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
著者
西脇 佑
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.74-90, 2019 (Released:2020-12-28)

Modern natural philosophy was often caught in the fallacy of bifurcation. In opposition to the bifurcation, Whitehead adopted Kant's assumption, ‘significance’ is an essential element in concrete experience. Significance is the relatedness of things. According to Whitehead, significance forms concrete experiences. By discussing significance, Whitehead attempted to overcome the bifurcation, and supposed that both our perceptual life and universal nature could be founded. The aim of this paper is to discuss ‘significance’ defined by Whitehead, and then to discuss cognisance by relatedness in the structure of signification. The first chapter discusses the structure of signification. The structure reveals a whole-and-part relation. This relation is discussed by the interaction between a percipient event and a duration. The percipient event defines the duration which is ‘all nature’, and the duration determines the percipient event which is a part. In Chapter 2, cognisance by relatedness is discussed in the structure of signification. For example, without knowing the qualities of the moon, we can know the moon in terms of temporal and spatial relations. We take cognisance of the nature beyond our direct perception. Such cognisance is the basis of scientific theories of externality. Thus, scientific theories are founded on significance.
著者
大厩 諒
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.61-73, 2019 (Released:2020-12-28)

This article critically considers “Object-Oriented Philosophy vs. Radical Empiricism” written by Graham Harman, and then explores the theory of pure experience in James’s philosophy in comparison to Harman and New Realists. In his essay, Harman regards James to be “too close to the traditional empiricists” and “too close to idealism.” But I will show that his interpretation of James is too narrow and inaccurate to prove his claims. Next, I will outline the major trends in realism at the turn of the century. In particular I will deal with New Realism or Neo-Realism, which was led by such younger philosophers as Edwin Bissell Holt, Ralph Barton Perry and William Pepperell Montague, and which earnestly refuted the old-fashioned idealism that had dominated American philosophy through the nineteenth century. In this article I aim to bring to light the realistic aspect of James’s philosophy.
著者
有村 直輝
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.47-60, 2019 (Released:2020-12-28)

In 2017, Volume 1 of The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead was published. This volume includes students’ notes on Whitehead’s lectures at Harvard University from 1924 to 1925, which is valuable material for understanding his philosophical development. In the lectures, Whitehead sometimes mentions logic, which was his earlier major. How did he understand logic at this later period? How did logic relate to his metaphysics? This paper attempts to answer these questions. First, I examine how Whitehead constructed his metaphysics and the relationship of this design to logic. In the Harvard lectures, Whitehead was attempting to construct a metaphysical system in which becoming is compatible with the eternal, and in which he felt the need to include logic. Second, I clarify the definition of logic as it is given in his lectures. Whitehead used some unusual terms (“Shadow of Truth,” “formulation,” “the how”) to explain the essence of logic. I explain what these terms mean, thereby elucidating his definition of logic. Finally, I conclude that in Whitehead’s metaphysics, logic is the science that attends to the point where becoming meets the eternal. From 1924 to 1925, logic was essential to his metaphysics, since it was concerned with both the aspects that Whitehead attempted to sustain in his philosophy.
著者
中等漢文研究会 編
出版者
敬文館
巻号頁・発行日
vol.3年程度, 1916