Thread 24853270

>Isn't it strange that modern physics embraces process over substance but our metaphysics doesn't?
>Hmm I guess you're right Whitehead.
>Alright so everything is conscious and has free will, occasions are the real actors in everything, every moment anywhere influences every other thing that occurs and objects absorb every piece of data from anything they interact with.
Uh what?

I was told to read this guy, to go beyond Kant and Schopenhauers flaws. Somebody sell me on him. Even listening to a coursery lecture on him, I dont get what is supposed to be significant about his philosophy

>>24853537
It's a very unique and optimistic but highly speculative worldview.
If the idea of having free choice and meaning in your life appeals to you you'll probably like it.

>>24853580
>If the idea of having free choice and meaning in your life appeals to you you'll probably like it.
It appeals to me abstractly, but not realistically. I despise the concept and overvaluing of freedom, as I find it contrary to meaning, and also often used to wash over meaning. But also value it in the abstract sense, of if I had any freedom, power, choice in any matters of my life, then I would be able to force and invoke meaning, everywhere I go. Contradictory I know.

>>24853270 (OP)
Can some whiteheanon can tell me what the fuck Is an actual entity?

Sounds like Leibniz

Ex nihilo nihil fit

>>24854598
Because it Is, withehead was really influenced by Leibniz concept of monads

>>24854880
Real talk what the fuck was up with that entire era of philosophy and devolving into nonsense esotericism and pseudo-religions rather than any actual philosophic considerations of the human condition. Were were seriously just out of fucking ideas at that point without going into "what if I just make some fucking shit up about arbitrary mystic beings that might as well be faeries or some shit." territory?

>>24855044
They weren’t even in the same era