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11451732 No.11451732 [Reply] [Original]

What made Whitehead go mad?

>> No.11452206

>>11451732
retroactive refutation

>> No.11452320

I thought I was the only one who thought this book was crazy

>> No.11452340

>>11451732
>>11452320
He didn't go mad. This book requires very careful study, or else it will sound like gibberish. It should take you a year of daily reading for an hour per day to complete, which is a little more than 1 page per hour. Each sentence requires a few minutes of contemplation.

>> No.11452366

>>11451732
This book is something else. Somehow makes the "Continental" idea of immanence somewhat analytic - not to be mean to continentals it just seems easier to approach it from that end.

It is hard, and I won't pretend to have absorbed everything in it, but there definitely is something to his view of the world, and efforts to connect science,art,religion, and philosophy

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>>11451732
He didn't know the true language of God, cellular automaton specifications.

>> No.11452521

>>11452320
It's not that crazy if you are pretty well rounded in philosophy

>> No.11453031

anyone would go mad after trying to explain for 300 pages why one plus one equals two

>> No.11454118

Bump

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>>11453031
>Parroting false claims of r*dditors who haven't read the book.