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A. N. Whitehead On Good and Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

R. K. Harrison
Affiliation:
Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

Extract

The many comments on good and evil found in the writings of A. N. Whitehead are exhibited in his mind against the two categories of positive and negative value. His concern in value-considerations is with the “trinity” of truth, beauty and goodness on the one hand, and with falsehood, ugliness and evil on the other. For him, “value” is a word employed for “the intrinsic reality of an event” and very frequently in his treatment of the value-theme he uses the term “importance” as having equivalence to “value.”

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Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1953

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References

page 239 note 1 Adventures of Ideas (1933), p. 11.

page 239 note 2 Science and the Modern World (1929), p. 136.

page 239 note 3 Aims of Education (1929), p. 63.

page 239 note 4 Process and Reality (1929), p. 27.

page 239 note 5 Cf. Ibid., pp. 337 ff.

page 239 note 6 Ibid., p. 70.

page 239 note 7 Science and the Modern World, p. 239.

page 240 note 1 Vide Process and Reality, pp. 37 f.

page 240 note 2 Mathematics and the Good. (The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Ed. Schilpp.), pp. 672 f.

page 240 note 3 Ibid., p. 679.

page 240 note 4 Adventures of Ideas, p. 3.

page 240 note 5 Process and Reality, p. 171.

page 241 note 1 Mathematics and the Good, p. 678.

page 241 note 2 Modes of Thought (1938), p. 109.

page 241 note 3 Ibid., p. 98.

page 241 note 4 Ibid., p. 108.

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page 241 note 6 Mathematics and the Good, p. 679.

page 241 note 7 Adventure of Ideas, p. 355.

page 242 note 1 Immortality (Whitehead in Schilpp. ed.), pp. 686 f.

page 242 note 2 Science and the Modern World, p. 276.

page 242 note 3 Cf. Religion in the Making, pp. 97 f.

page 242 note 4 Process and Reality, p. 134 passim.

page 242 note 5 Religion in the Making, p. 155.

page 242 note 6 Ibid, p. 156.

page 243 note 1 Process and Reality, pp. 19 ff.