----- Original Message ----- From: "kelley" <kwalker2 at gte.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>; <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 6:05 PM Subject: Re: Im Anfang war die Tat
> At 05:43 PM 9/29/01 -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
>
> >============
> >Agency is too and, in all probability, information. Descartes was
into
> >what would the world look like to God if God "saw" only atoms
> >[physico-geometrical omniscience]. It was up to Leibniz to ask what
> >would it be like *to be* an atom [monad]. Whitehead was a demigod,
imo
> >and if people get the chance, read and argue with "Process and
> >Reality"-with it's "cell theory of actuality." Computer lovers,
> >biology lovers and cellular automatists take note at how prescient
the
> >guy was..........
>
> Follow it up with Justus Buchler's _Metaphysics of Natural
Complexes_ --the
> last attempt at American systematic metaphysics.
>
> not as spiritual but he grapples with weakness in Whitehead's
work --
> Dewey, Santayana, too.
>
>
> kelley
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Speed read it in the '80's...loved his intimations/appreciations of
the problems of mereology [parts and wholes]. His "heir" is a guy
named David Weissman, the text is "Intuition and Ideality" a brilliant
work.
Ian