God and World: Complementary Processes? Whitehead's Onto-Theology Cover Image

Dumnezeu şi lumea - procese complementare? Aspecte ale onto-teologiei lui A. N. Whitehead
God and World: Complementary Processes? Whitehead's Onto-Theology

Author(s): Ioan Lucian Muntean
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Societatea KRISIS pentru Dialog şi Reflecţie Filosofică
Keywords: A.N. Whitehead’s Process and Reality; encounter between theology and formal ontology; ontotheology;

Summary/Abstract: Here we try to show that the last part of A.N. Whitehead’s Process and Reality (the ’Final Interpretation’) should be conceived as a standing alternative to the rule applied in the Western scientific thought. As we know, this rule asserts that «all scientific presuppositions must be free of any theological or metaphysical implications». By the refutation of this principle, Whitehead heeded that God and World had to be conceived as two complementary processes. If we accept this interpretation, science and theology can straighten out from the multiple antinomies that they must to confront with. The new encounter between theology and formal ontology (named here ontotheology) is a major result of Whitehead’s philosophy, in as much as it resolves the antinomies that each of them could not work out alone.

  • Issue Year: 1997
  • Issue No: 05
  • Page Range: 36-42
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian