As I entered the last third of PROCESS
AND REALITY, I found that the author began introducing not less but
more specialized terms, to the point that I found most of the text
unfathomable. So I confess I merely spot-read the rest of it, only
marking the odd phrase or sentence, I’m glad that I did at least
that much, for by so doing I did find one of Whitehead’s most
all-embracing theme statements.
There is nothing in the real world which is merely an inert fact. Every reality is there for feeling: it promotes feeling; and it is felt. Also there is nothing which belongs merely to the privacy of feeling of one individual actuality. All origination is private. But what has been thus originated, publicly pervades the world.
With whatever accuracy, I will state
that I find this passage fully congruent with the ideals of
pluralism, as well as with the concept of intersubjectivity as I expounded upon
the idea here. And with that broad statement, I will now leave Alfred
North Whitehead in peace.
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