{"id":619,"date":"2008-01-29T19:21:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T00:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2008-01-29T19:21:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T00:21:52","slug":"whiteheads-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Whitehead&#8217;s God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took me much longer than I had hoped, but I have finally finished a first draft of my chapter on Whitehead&#8217;s notion of God. It&#8217;s longer than it should be, and a bit all over the place (digressive) &#8212; and yet touches too briefly on a number of things that it would be good to flesh out in greater detail. And I didn&#8217;t quite manage to explain how and why Whitehead&#8217;s God might be preferable even to Spinoza&#8217;s God (its only competitor) for the role of the philosophers&#8217; God, or the atheists&#8217; God. In any case, the God I discern in Whitehead is (as far as I can tell) rather different from the one found in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Process_theology\">process theology<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, the article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Othertexts\/God.pdf\">here<\/a> (pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me much longer than I had hoped, but I have finally finished a first draft of my chapter on Whitehead&#8217;s notion of God. It&#8217;s longer than it should be, and a bit all over the place (digressive) &#8212; and yet touches too briefly on a number of things that it would be good &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/?p=619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Whitehead&#8217;s God&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shaviro.com\/Blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}