Category: Charles Hartshorne’s The Unity of Being

The Unity of Being Part II Section 8 [127] Section 8 　The Implications of Quality Thesis: Not only has every entity a nature or quality, but every quality has itself a nature, i.e., requires to be specified in its determinate difference from all other qualities by means of a further universal. In the end, since… Continue reading Part II Section 8

The Unity of Being Part II Section 9 [144] Section 9 　　Relations 　A. External Relations. Thesis: External or non-contributory relations imply an underlying reality to “mediate” these. Argument 1. Let us consider the three factors: the term A, the relation R, and the relatedness or being- related of A by R. The third factor, the… Continue reading Part II Section 9

The Unity of Being Part II Section 10 [170] Section 10 　　Space and Time Argument 1. Thesis: Space and Time are not wholes merely in the sense of parts in external relations to each other. This thesis follows a priori1 from the previous discussion of relations. But the problem may be taken more empirically as… Continue reading Part II Section 10

The Unity of Being Part II Section 11 [192] Section 11 　　Knowledge Argument 1. Thesis: Knowledge is not a collocation of objects, nor any relation between them simply. It is not reducible to terms that do not involve knowledge as essential to their being. The mere statement of the proposition that mind is an arrangement… Continue reading Part II Section 11

The Unity of Being Part II Section 12 [220] Section 12 　　Value Thesis: Value is essentially social, a matter of co-enjoyment, willed and felt as such. Valuation, therefore, is always and in principle objective as well as subjective, — the value enjoyed belongs, as such or as enjoyed value, not simply to any one subject… Continue reading Part II Section 12

The Unity of Being Part II Section 13 [259] Section 13 　　Perfection (The Ontological Argument) This to our minds incomparably brilliant and cogent course of reasoning was initiated as is well known, by Anselm.1  We shall not consider its formulation at his hands, however, but pass at once to the famous criticisms of Kant upon… Continue reading Part II Section 13

The Unity of Being Part II Section 14 [286] Section 14 　　Conclusion The course which has been run was characterized in the Introduction as a progressive examination of ultimate categories of thought, from the abstract or implicit to the more concrete and explicit, with a view to discovering the relation of the initial category of… Continue reading Part II Section 14

The Unity of Being Bibliography The following works and discussions are suggested: 　1. General Issue of Monisn versus Pluralism. Aristotelian Society Proceedings, 1919, Supplementary Volume II. (Symposium by Rashdall, Muirhead, Schiller, and D’Arcy. “Can Finite Minds be included in the Mind of God?”). Hoeffding. The Problems of Philosophy. New York,1906. Lewis, C. I. “Facts, Systems,… Continue reading Bibliography