Quoting David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi DMB > > As Sneddon explains for those who jump to invalid conclusions: > > "This is not the kind of god to whom religious worship is typically > addressed. Moreover, Whitehead's later atheistic (in a narrow sense) > position is evident in Lucien Price's book, The Dialogues of Alfred North > Whitehead: > > God is in the world, or nowhere, creating continually in us and around us. > This creative principle is everywhere, in animate and so-called inanimate > matter, in the ether, water, earth, human hearts. But this creation is a > continuing process, and 'the process is itself the actuality', since no > sooner do you arrive than you start on a fresh journey. In so far as man > partakes of this creative process does he partake of the divine nature of > God, and that participation is his immortality, reducing the question of > whether his individuality survives death to the estate of an irrelevancy. > His true destiny as co-creator in the universe is his dignity and his > grandeur. (Price, 297) > > Whitehead's 'god' is not a personal entity but a principle in the universe."
Right. So is Pirsig's "Quality." ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
