Posts Tagged ‘Arlette Poland’
Can Prehension Lead to Truth?
By Arlette Poland The actual occasion, as it is becoming actual, prehends information from the past. It determines what to eliminate or keep or ignore. It is as if the…
Read MoreProcess Thought as Source for Ethics
By Dr. Arlette Poland In Judaism, community and ethical behavior go hand in hand. We are told that our community is our life and our life is best when it…
Read MoreL’Chaim: To Life and Impermanence
by Dr. Arlette Poland There is a continuousness about existence that Whitehead recognized. One event, life, thing even memory flows into another. First there is this and then there is…
Read MoreThe Meaning of Making Meaning and Time
By Dr. Arlette Poland Humans make meaning. That is what we do. We decide if we like a color, a person, an object, a country – or not. We make…
Read MoreIs the Mitzvah of Memory Possible in Whitehead’s Process Model?
By Dr. Arlette Poland Judaism is nothing if it is not its history. That is what I teach my students. One of the first things they hear and likely one…
Read MorePEACE? BAH HUMBUG – OR NOT
By Arlette Poland What is peace, anyway? Is it even real or possible? Is it the opposite of war? Or is it the opposite of life? I suspect that Whitehead…
Read MoreFACTS AND FALLACIES
By Arlette Poland Years ago, as an attorney, I had to use ‘facts’ in evidence. Now, as a Professor and Whiteheadian philosopher, I teach that we humans, in our drive to…
Read MoreCARE AND CONNECTION: THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME
By Dr. Arlette Poland Whitehead taught that every becoming occasion or moment is filled with all of the past. For him, when he waxed religious, that past included information from…
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