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BOHM AND WHITEHEAD ON WHOLENESS, FREEDOM, CAUSALITY, AND TIME
Author(s) -
Griffin David Ray
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.1985.tb00590.x
Subject(s) - causation , relation (database) , causality (physics) , epistemology , creativity , philosophy , postmodernism , psychology , social psychology , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , database
. 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.