By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
Hartshorne asks, What makes becoming "the inclusive or concrete form of reality"? He answers: Because of "the unique relatedness or relativity of becoming" (CSPM: 26 f.).
But, then, my question is, Why isn't this answer sufficient? What need is there, metaphysically, to add—as he insists on adding—Because becoming is "experience or awareness as such"?
The qualification, "metaphysically," is important. There may very well be a need to add this philosophically—when philosophy is about its second, more concrete, inclusive, existential task, as distinct from its first, more abstract, included, analytic task.
26 February 2006
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