Process philosophy was created by [[@Alfred North Whitehead]]. ## Key Concepts - [[Prehension]] - **Process:** The universe in an ongoing process of development and change. Every entity in the universe is in a process of becoming through its interactions with others. - **Interconnectedness:** The universe is a seamless web of interconnected events. A network of interbeing. - **Continuous Creativity:** The universe exhibits continuous creativity on the basis for which new events come into existence over time that did not exist before. Even G-d creates and is continuously created. - The natural world and all living beings are alive have value. - Ethics - Novelty - The human mind is not limited to just reasoning and includes feeling, intuiting, imagining etc. - Relational Selfhood - Complementary Thinking (nondual) - Theory affects practice & practice affects theory. - Persuasion instead of coercion - Relational power - Particularity - Experience in the mode of [[Causal Efficacy]] - Concern for the vulnerable - Belief that evil exists & can be structural. - Education as a lifelong process - Religion & Science - G-d - [[Transpersonal Panentheism]] - Faith ## Other Process Thinkers - [[@Lynn Marguilis]] - [[@David Bohm]] - [[@Herman Daly]] - [[@Paolo Soleri]] - [[@Vandana Shiva]] ## Questions - Is this related to [[@Murray Bookchin]]'s concepts of [[Dialectical Naturalism]]? - Yes! One explains the nature of reality while the other explains the nature of social/nature relationships. - Is there overlap with this and [[@Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]]'s [[Phenomenology]]? - [[@Charles Darwin]] & [[@Alfred Russel Wallace]]'s [[Theory of Evolution]] would seem to affirm this concept of process theory through the idea of prehension would it not? ## Notes # Sources: - [[Dialectical Naturalism]] - [[Phenomenology]] - [[Process Theology]] - [Center For Process Studies](https://ctr4process.org/) - [What is Process Thought?](https://cobb.institute/educators-toolbox/what-is-process-thought-20-key-ideas/) - [[Transcendentalism]]