Description
Book SynopsisMind, Value, and Cosmos: On the Relational Nature of Ultimacy is an investigation into the nature of ultimacy and explanation, particularly as it relates to the status of, and relationship between, Mind, Value, and the Cosmos. It draws its stimulus from longstanding “axianoetic” convictions as to the ultimate status of Mind and Value in the western tradition of philosophical theology, and chiefly from the influential modern proposals of A.N. Whitehead, Keith Ward, and John Leslie. What emerges is a relational theory of ultimacy wherein Mind and Value, Possibility and Actuality, God and the World are revealed as “ultimate” only in virtue of their relationality. The ultimacy of relationality—what Whitehead calls “mutual immanence”—uniquely illuminates enduring mysteries surrounding: any and all existence, necessary divine existence, the nature of the possible, and the world as actual. As such, it casts fresh light upon the whence and why of God, the World, and their ultimate presuppositions.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Relational Nature of Ultimacy
Part I: Any and All Existence
Chapter 1: Mysteries of Existence
Chapter 2: Ways of Explaining the Mystery
Part II: Divine Necessity and the Axianoetic Tradition
Chapter 3: Axiarchism: The Creative Supremacy of Value
Chapter 4: Idealism: The Primordiality of Mind
Chapter 5: The Mutual Immanence of Mind and Value
Part III: God and the Possible
Chapter 6: Riddles of the Possible
Chapter 7: Ridding the Possible
Chapter 8: The Mutual Immanence of the Possible and the Actual
Part IV: The World and Its Actualization
Chapter 9: Mind and the Making of Actuality
Chapter 10: The Mutual Immanence of God and the World
Conclusion: The Ultimacy of Relationality
