By Charles Hartshorne Introduction The Unity of Being is Charles Hartshorne’s doctoral dissertation written at Harvard University in 1923. The dissertation is organized in two Parts with fourteen Sections. This presentation of The Unity of Being is divided into two Parts of Seven Sections each. Hartshorne’s Digest (or Preface) follows below which in turn is… Continue reading The Unity of Being Sections 1-7
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The Unity of Being Sections 8-14
The Unity of Being Part II Section 8 [127] Section 8 The Implications of Quality Thesis: Not only has every entity a nature or quality, but every quality has itself a nature, i.e., requires to be specified in its determinate difference from all other qualities by means of a further universal. In the end, since… Continue reading The Unity of Being Sections 8-14
A Charles Hartshorne Timeline
1897, June 5: birth of Charles Hartshorne in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, to Francis Hartshorne, an Episcopal minister, and Marguerite Hartshorne. He had five siblings: an older sister and four younger brothers, two of whom were identical twins. 1909: The family moved to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, 28 miles from Philadelphia. 1911-15: attended, from his fourteenth to eighteenth years,… Continue reading A Charles Hartshorne Timeline
How I Got That Way
By Charles Hartshorne What causes an individual’s choice of a philosophy? If to cause means to strictly determine, my philosophy holds that nothing causes such a choice. There are no literally sufficient conditions in the past for our present ways of thinking, or even for the precise happenings in inanimate nature. However, there are necessary… Continue reading How I Got That Way