BOHM AND WHITEHEAD ON WHOLENESS, FREEDOM, CAUSALITY, AND TIME |
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| Authors: | David Ray Griffin |
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| Affiliation: | David Ray Griffin is executive director of the Center for Process Studies, 1325 North College Avenue, Claremont, California 91711 and professor of philosophy of religion at the School of Theology at Claremont. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. David Bohm's developing postmodern thought (combining precision and wholeness) is seen to contain two tendencies. One is a vision of "underlying wholeness," in which all causation is vertical, and the implicate-explicate relation is ubiquitous. This provides a possible solution to certain problems, but creates many others involving freedom, causation, and time. Second, many of Bohm's statements suggest that his deepest intuitions could be formulated without those problems in terms of the distinctions developed in Alfred North Whitehead's philosophy of "prehensive wholeness," in which the ubiquity of creativity would require a more restricted use of the implicate-explicate relation. |
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