{"id":20858,"date":"2011-02-15T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=20858"},"modified":"2011-02-15T00:00:53","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T05:00:53","slug":"alfred-north-whitehead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/02\/15\/alfred-north-whitehead\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred North Whitehead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/ANWhitehead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20859\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/ANWhitehead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/ANWhitehead.jpg 390w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/02\/ANWhitehead-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_North_Whitehead\" target=\"_blank\">Alfred North Whitehead<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1861-1947).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Frye in conversation with David Cayley:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Cayley<\/strong>: Frazer and Spengler, recognizing all their liabilities, were the two people who gave you the key pieces, then.\u00a0 They were not the ones you admired, but the ones who gave you something you could borrow or use?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Frye<\/strong>: Yes, that&#8217;s right.\u00a0 It was, again, a matter of looking for what I could use, but not for something to believe in.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Cayley<\/strong>: What about Whitehead and the idea of interpenetration?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Frye<\/strong>: The conception of interpenetration, as I said, I found in Whitehead&#8217;s <em>Science and the Modern World<\/em>.\u00a0 Other people have found it in Mahayana Buddhism and the <em>Avatasaka Sutura<\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the way of accounting for the fact that the centre is everywhere.\u00a0 Traditionally we&#8217;ve always defined God as a being whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.\u00a0 But I would think of God as a being whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is everywhere too. The opposite of interpenetration, where everything exists somewhere at once, is an objective centrality, which, it seems to me, is a most tryannical conception.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Cayley<\/strong>: Objective centrality&#8211;what does that mean?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\ufeff<strong>Frye<\/strong>: In political developments, for example, it&#8217;s a matter of an empire getting so big that everything gets centred in Rome or London or New York of Tokyo.\u00a0 That seems to me an anti-cultural direction.\u00a0 In the interpenetrating world every community would be the centre of the world.\u00a0 (CW 24, 933-4)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Three examples off the top of my head: Tunisia, Egypt, and, this week (again), Iran.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Coming soon?\u00a0 The overburdened middle class and the trod-under-foot working poor perhaps reassert their right to everything that has been swindled from them by corporatist greed, lies, and daylight theft\u00a0 &#8212; and aided and abetted all the while by\u00a0 a political class who use our votes against our interests.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Alfred North Whitehead&#8216;s birthday (1861-1947). 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Frye: Yes, that&#8217;s right.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,32,33,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-culture","category-current-events","category-interpenetration"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Alfred North Whitehead - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/02\/15\/alfred-north-whitehead\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alfred North Whitehead - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today is Alfred North Whitehead&#8216;s birthday (1861-1947). 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