Charles Hartshorne Quotes on Nature
Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher and the principal interpreter and developer of Whitehead's process metaphysics. This page collects quotes attributed to Charles Hartshorne on the topic of nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Charles Hartshorne:
“Reality is process; substance is its abstraction.”
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Attributed to Charles Hartshorne:
“Becoming includes being; being does not include becoming.”
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“I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song .”
In Herbert F. Vetter, " Not The Average Philosopher ", Harvard Magazine , May/June 1997, Volume 99, Number 5. Vetter was surprised by this, given Hartshorne's dozens of substantial books on theology. -
“[T]he traditional idea of divine perfection or infinity is hopelessly unclear or ambiguous and that persisting in that tradition is bound to cause increasing skepticism, confusion, and human suffering. It has long bred, and must evermore breed, atheism as a natural reaction.”
Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes(1984)