/lit/ - Literature

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my mind, yes

>God is the fatality of the situation in which the wave function has already collapsed

>The “inevitable ordering of things, conceptually realized in the nature of God,” is without appeal, and without justification: “this function of God is analogous to the remorseless working of things in Greek and in Buddhist thought." … Whitehead’s objection to Leibniz comes down to the way that Leibniz seeks to justify this fatality, to insist that God makes a rational selection among possible worlds, and that this selection is ultimately for the best. To the contrary, Whitehead insists that, if “God is the ultimate limitation,” then “His existence is the ultimate irrationality. For no reason can be given for just that limitation which it stands in His nature to impose” (1925/1967, 178). God is not just inexorable; he is also arbitrary.19

>Whitehead replaces Kant’s “empty form” of the Categorical Imperative with God’s merely empirical arbitrariness; but he remains Kantian in his refusal to subject this arbitrary “decision” to any pre-existing standard of rationality or Goodness, or to any higher form of justification. “What is metaphysically indeterminate has nevertheless to be categorically determinate. We have come to the limits of rationality” (Whitehead 1925/1967, 178).

When did you realize Whitehead couldn't purge himself of his own perfidious anglo-ness and his God is basically an all-consuming, all-realizing potential for novelty that demands death for its own actualization? When did you realize the Whitehead meme on /lit/ just appeals to pseuds who want some semblance of exotic metaphysics without any actual commitment to de-programming their debased and thoroughly modernized notions of God and the world?

> Rather than rejecting metaphysical speculation, Whitehead seeks for a way to do metaphysics otherwise. And rather than eliminating God, he seeks to accomplish “the secularization of God’s functions in the world” (1929/1978, 207). This is one of the most startling proposals in all of Process and Reality. The secularization of God, Whitehead writes, “is at least as urgent a requisite of thought as is the secularization of other elements in experience.”

>In saying this, Whitehead positions himself within the general Enlightenment project of emancipation–but with a twist. For secularization is not the same thing as outright elimination. It works in a way that is quieter, and less confrontational. Religion is not abolished, nor even really deposed; but it does lose a certain degree of importance. “The concept of God is certainly one essential element in religious feeling. But the converse is not true: the concept of religious feeling is not an essential element in the concept of God’s function in the universe” (207).

When did you realize Whitehead didn't actually cure himself of the anglo disease and that at the end of the day he's just still another secularism cultist whose spiritual organs are just as decrepit and atrophied as the members of the tradition he wants to distinguish himself from?

What are some of the most advanced secondary sources on Kant?

Daily reminder semen retention is the key to comprehending mysticism and philosophy

>Case 19 of the Blue Cliff Record (see, Cleary 1977) recounts how Chan master Zhu Di was fond of responding to students’ queries simply by raising his index finger. One day, Zhu Di was away and his teenaged attendant greeted some visitors inquiring as to the master’s whereabouts by mimicking his master’s trademark gesture. When Zhu Di returned, the boy informed him how things had gone while he was away and Zhu Di asked him to demonstrate how he had responded to the visitors. The boy raised his finger, which Zhu Di promptly severed with a knife. As his attendant fled in pain, Zhu Di called out his name. When the boy stopped and turned, Zhu Di raised his finger. The boy’s mind opened and realization blossomed.

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Is there a term for the perverse pleasure you feel when the book you are reading cites some obscure source which you also happen to have read and/or still have on your shelf?

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