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Check out Alfred North Whitehead, process philosophy, and some of the thinkers that have been influenced by him. They incorporate evolution and change much more
by keiferski 3y ago
Check out Alfred North Whitehead, process philosophy, and some of the thinkers that have been influenced by him. They incorporate evolution and change much more than basically any religious thinker from prior eras.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_theology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_theology
- devinjon 3y agoExcept maybe Heraclitus and Lao Tzu. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laozi
- keiferski 3y agoVery little to do with Whitehead’s system other than being broadly “process” oriented.
- devinjon 3y agoOkay, Heraclitus might be a stretch, I'll give you that. But I do recommend giving the Tao Te Ching a read with Whitehead in mind. :)
- Podgajski 3y ago“process philosophy posits transient occasions of change or becoming as the only fundamental things of the ordinary everyday real world.” I think you need to read more Daoist writings! It possesses that it is the transformation of yin into yang and back that creates everything in the world. https://www.heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/yin-yang-a-method-to-analyze-the-universe-nature-and-human https://www.heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/yin-yang-a-method... The discovery that the motion of matter is not the result of external dynamics, but the result of the action of things themselves. The mutual movement, growth and transformation of yin and yang in natural things contribute to the process of formation, development and decay. All things in nature, from the large celestial universe to microscopic particles and human cell, are in constant motion in their own yin and yang. This uniform law is the absolute law of motion of the universe as a whole. And https://www.openhorizons.org/daoism-and-process-the-daoist-side-of-whitehead.html https://www.openhorizons.org/daoism-and-process-the-daoist-s...