Whitehead's Doctrine of Perceptive Experience
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Authors
Winter, Michael F.
Issue Date
1970
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is not so very difficulty
to characterize: it is an exposition of the doctrine of perceptive
experience held by Alfred North Whitehead. And although in one sense there is no originality on the part of its author, in that the primary
goal is clarification rather than critical examination or refutation, it is not to be brushed aside for all that. It is, in my opinion,
an unfortunate characteristic of twentieth century philosophy that
everyone seems so concerned with "doing" philosophy with exposing the
absurdities and. contradictions of thinkers who, it is magnanimously allowed, simply did not have the benefit of our own knowledge. But then
perhaps this extends beyond philosophy and taints other disciplines
as well: one thinks of the merciless attacks of modern anthropology
on Freud's easy acceptance of nineteenth-century evolutionism, his
implicit assumption of the validity of a naive form of the biological
doctrine of recapitulation and, most d1sturbing of all, his belief in
the notion if "primitive mentality."
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iv, 72 p.
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