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To: RightWhale
...as well as eliminating the problem of bifurcation of nature. Since I view the problem of bifurcation of nature as the most serious issue facing us I am greatly impressed that Whitehead was able to get around it.

I tried Googling "bifurcation of nature" and ran head on into a bunch of philosophy using terms which I have never been exposed to before.

As such I could not on first reading make out *what* was being said.

I trust your intellect, integrity, and judgement. Could you suggest a good introductory book or website on the subject?

Cheers!

PS It'll be on the "to be read pile" for now--I just started Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged and Michener's Alaska, too.

Cheers!

669 posted on 10/26/2006 6:27:32 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers

Unfortunately there is no good book I have come across about the philosophy of Whitehead since the Living Philosophers series in the sense of quick and direct and succinct. Whitehead has developed his own lingo and rightly so. "Process and Reality" is supposedly his philosophy masterwork and one of the best of the best, right up there with Heidegger's "Being and Time," but was written while he was still a mathematician and in transition. However, he develops ontological categories there that Aristotle wouldn't have dreamed of on his best day. Won't be any shortcuts here.


1,032 posted on 10/27/2006 8:50:35 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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