Whitehead’s categoreal scheme
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Whitehead’s categoreal scheme is the systematic set of fundamental metaphysical categories he developed to explain the basic structure and processes of reality in his process philosophy.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
category scheme
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component of process philosophy ⓘ metaphysical system ⓘ |
| aim |
to explain the basic structure of reality
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to systematize process philosophy ⓘ |
| concerns |
God in process philosophy
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actual entities ⓘ creativity ⓘ eternal objects ⓘ fundamental categories of existence ⓘ nexus ⓘ prehension ⓘ process ⓘ |
| creator | Alfred North Whitehead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedIn | Process and Reality NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| developedIn | early 20th century ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
becoming over static being
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interconnectedness of all actual entities ⓘ |
| includes |
Categoreal Obligations
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Categories of Existence NERFINISHED ⓘ Categories of Explanation NERFINISHED ⓘ Category of the Ultimate ⓘ |
| influenced |
analytic process metaphysics
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ecological metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of religion ⓘ process theology ⓘ |
| keyConcept |
God as primordial and consequent nature
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actual occasions as basic units of reality ⓘ concrescence ⓘ creativity as ultimate principle ⓘ eternal objects as pure potentials ⓘ nexus as societies of occasions ⓘ prehension as relation of feeling ⓘ process as fundamental metaphysical fact ⓘ |
| language | technical metaphysical vocabulary ⓘ |
| opposes | substance metaphysics ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
20th-century metaphysics
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process philosophy ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
event ontology
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relational metaphysics ⓘ |
| statusInWhitehead | foundation of his mature metaphysics ⓘ |
| structure | hierarchical organization of categories ⓘ |
| usedFor |
analysis of experience
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cosmological explanation ⓘ reconciling science and philosophy ⓘ |
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