Does the philosophy of organism have a way to conceptualize and articulate the evil of the enslavement of black africans on the North American continent? "The novel fact may throw back inhibit and delay. But the advance, when it does arrive, will be richer in content, more fully conditioned, and more stable." (Process and Reality, 223) Is the evil of the unrelenting suffering of slavery an actual occasion which is a prehension of the enlightenment of the universe? Is human experience itself as it has progressed from Neanderthal Man to now a series of actual occasions that will concresce and lead to the Age of Aquarius and the Amihtaba Buddha? You have to think that the deliberate breeding out of all white people would be God's plan- the tender care that God has for all creation would result in the transcendence of the evil of slavery, or the subjugation of women, with an all black society of Amazons.
Whitehead's philsophy seems to lack an adequate emphasis on suffering. His concepts do not encompass evil, sin, and human suffering much. The fact that he is a white man and at the top of the human food chain shapes his entire conceptual structure. For Whitehead's philosopy to work for me as a feminist I need to work out a theory of suffering more clearly that uses process thought.
This became clear following a look at Process and Reality to see how the horror of four hundred years of unpaid labor could be thought of in process terms.
Potentially, the answer is that the actual event of slavery is a negative prehension of the human freedom the will conscresce from the appetition for harmony. (Assuming God's nature really is tender care and patience.)
Friday, May 29, 2009
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