Mind, Value, and Cosmos - On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy

A engaging dialogue with the modern "axionoetic" proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie, arguing for the relational nature of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are affirmed as ultimate only in virtue of their relationality. This relationship Whitehead calls "mutual immanence."

List of contents

Introduction: The Relational Nature of Ultimacy
Part I: Any and All Existence
Chapter 1: Mysteries of Existence
Chapter 2: Ways of Explaining the Mystery
Part II: Divine Necessity and the Axianoetic Tradition
Chapter 3: Axiarchism: The Creative Supremacy of Value
Chapter 4: Idealism: The Primordiality of Mind
Chapter 5: The Mutual Immanence of Mind and Value
Part III: God and the Possible
Chapter 6: Riddles of the Possible
Chapter 7: Ridding the Possible
Chapter 8: The Mutual Immanence of the Possible and the Actual
Part IV: The World and Its Actualization
Chapter 9: Mind and the Making of Actuality
Chapter 10: The Mutual Immanence of God and the World
Conclusion: The Ultimacy of Relationality

About the author

Andrew M. Davis is program director for the Center for Process Studies. He is author, editor, and coeditor of several books including Mind, Value, and Cosmos (2020) and Metaphysics of Exo-Life (2023).

Product details

• Authors: Andrew M. Davis
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9781793636393
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-639-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Contemporary Whitehead Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Relaxation, yoga, meditation, autogenic training; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works