By Charles Hartshorne Whitehead has profound points of agreement with Buddhism. It is almost harder to state the important differences than the aspects of agreement. This is the more remarkable in that evidences of actual influence of Buddhist works upon him are slight. For the Western thinker, as for the great Asiatic tradition, concrete entities… Continue reading Whitehead’s Differences from Buddhism
Month: June 2023
How Not To Be An Atheist: A Neoclassical Response to the New Atheism
Donald Wayne Viney The voice on the other end was Sergeant Reed of Homicide. “You still looking for God?” “Yeah.” “An all-power Being? Great Oneness, Creator of the Universe? First Cause of All Things?” “That’s right.” “Somebody with that description just showed up at the morgue. You better get down here right away.” It was Him all right, and… Continue reading How Not To Be An Atheist: A Neoclassical Response to the New Atheism
Stephen Fry and Charles Hartshorne: God and unjustified suffering
Donald Wayne Viney1 The work of Stephen Fry is a treasure chest with many nuggets worth saving, but some of it is fool’s gold. Who could not enjoy the television series (Kingdom) in which he starred as the country solicitor, Peter Kingdom? Who could not delight in his playful reflections on the pedantry of language… Continue reading Stephen Fry and Charles Hartshorne: God and unjustified suffering
Charles Hartshorne’s Global Argument for the Existence of God
By Hyatt Carter “If I were asked, ‘Why do you believe in God?,’ I would not reply, ‘Because of the ontological argument.’ Rather, I would say that it is because of a group of arguments that mutually support one another so that their combined strength is not, as Kant would have it, like that of… Continue reading Charles Hartshorne’s Global Argument for the Existence of God
A Slice of Immortality: Remembering Charles Hartshorne
Donald Wayne Viney “Events far reaching enough to people all space, whose end is nonetheless tolled when one man dies, may cause us wonder. But something, or an infinite number of things, dies in every death, unless the universe is possessed of a memory, as the theosophists have supposed” (Borges, 39). I knew Charles Hartshorne… Continue reading A Slice of Immortality: Remembering Charles Hartshorne
Life and the Everlasting
By Charles Hartshorne Editorial comments: The original of this piece is a single-spaced typed manuscript of four and a half pages which is on file at the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. At the top of the first page is written in cursive, “Please return to Mrs.… Continue reading Life and the Everlasting
The Prosaic Fallacy
By Hyatt Carter Everyone has heard about the pathetic fallacy, but there is another fallacy, the exact opposite of the pathetic, that is of far more importance. This fallacy, which was first named and analyzed by Charles Hartshorne, is called the prosaic fallacy. Science tends to cast a cold eye on life and the world… Continue reading The Prosaic Fallacy
Charles Hartshorne Tribute to His Teachers
To the memory of my teachers in philosophy and psychology (then not sharply separated) at Harvard in 1919-23: James Naughton Woods (my advisor; whose counsel, “study logic, it’s the coming thing,” I should have taken more to heart than I did), scholar in Hindu philosophy, who in 1924 helped to turn a British mathematician, logician,… Continue reading Charles Hartshorne Tribute to His Teachers
Am I a Theologian?
By Charles Hartshorne1 Am I a theologian? The obvious and in a sense right answer is, no. But there is at least some ambiguity in the question. For there is an expression, “natural theology,” an expression whose validity, to be sure, has always been disputed, and in no age I suppose more widely challenged than… Continue reading Am I a Theologian?
Recollections of Leo Szilard by Charles Hartshorne
My wife and I met Leo Szilard, one of the most delightful and obviously brilliant people we have known, late in 1942. He was working on the mysterious Metallurgical project at the University of Chicago. (We met him through a Hungarian psychologist whose name we have forgotten.) He used to come to tea on our… Continue reading Recollections of Leo Szilard by Charles Hartshorne