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Preface to The Divine RelativityCharles Hartshorne In this book, which is a considerable expansion of the lectures as given, the attempt is made to apply logical analysis to the religious idea of God. One making such an attempt must expect the opposition both of many of the orthodox and of some of their skeptical opponents,… Continue reading Preface to The Divine Relativity

Preface to Philosophers Speak of GodCharles Hartshorne This work aims to present—by selections from some fifty writers ranging in time and space from Lao-tse, Plato, and Sankara to Whitehead, Berdyaev, and Radhakrishnan—the chief philosophical conceptions of deity. It also aims to aid readers in estimating the validity of these conceptions. The work is thus two… Continue reading Preface to Philosophers Speak of God

Preface to Reality as Social ProcessCharles Hartshorne Although there has been a lapse of fifteen years between the writing of the earliest and the latest of these essays, they all seem rather shockingly consistent one with another. A man ought to learn some of the errors of his ways between the years thirty-seven and fifty-two… Continue reading Preface to Reality as Social Process

Preface to The Logic of PerfectionCharles Hartshorne I feel chiefly indebted, in connection with this study, to my Harvard teachers of many years ago, to some discussions with Rudolf Carnap (who shares very few of my opinions), and to the advice on some logical points given me by Richard M. Martin and Lucio Chiaraviglio. If… Continue reading Preface to The Logic of Perfection

Preface to Anselm’s DiscoveryCharles Hartshorne In a thesis written at Harvard in 1923 I termed the Ontological Argument invented by Anselm “an incomparably brilliant and cogent course of reasoning.” I was already familiar with Kant’s famous refutation. Since that time frequent rereading of Kant and examination of scores of other refutations have failed to convince… Continue reading Preface to Anselm’s Discovery

Charles Hartshorne 　Dedication To the memory of Fausto Sozzini (Socinus), Italian theologian, and his brave Protestant followers in Poland and elsewhere, who in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were able to see and—in spite of persecution, scorn, and ridicule—to say, that the eternity or worshipful perfection of God does not imply his change­lessness (or self-sufficiency)… Continue reading Preface to A Natural Theology for Our Time

Preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic MethodCharles Hartshorne Philosophy aspires to impersonal truth, but a personal element stubbornly persists. I can most easily suggest what the reader may expect from this book by being somewhat autobiographical. Unlike most philosophical writings of our time, this is an essay in systematic metaphysics. In so far it resembles… Continue reading Preface to Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method

Preface to Born to SingCharles Hartshorne The primary aim of this book is to advance what P. Szöke has well called biomusicology, the study of music not just in man but in musical or singing animals generally. Szöke reasonably holds that to work in this field one should be expert both in musicology and in… Continue reading Preface to Born to Sing

Charles Hartshorne Although the treatment of topics is roughly chronological, this book is not, in any usual sense, a history of philosophy, whether designed to introduce beginners to the subject or to give advanced students a detailed and rounded exposition of what great philosophers were trying to do in and for their own age, and… Continue reading Preface to Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers

Preface to Creativity in American PhilosophyCharles Hartshorne This is the second of two volumes dealing with the history of philosophy, especially of metaphysics. The first, Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers, discusses some thirty European philosophers, from Democritus to Wittgenstein and Merleau-Ponty. In both volumes I try to learn and teach truth about reality by… Continue reading Preface to Creativity in American Philosophy