Chora and Identity: Whitehead’s Re-Appropriation of Plato’s Receptacle
The chora is one of the most perplexing as well as neglected concepts in Whitehead’s metaphysics. Explicitly drawing on Plato’s Receptacle Whitehead reinterprets the chora as the place, in between physics and meta-physics, where connections among actual entities happen. However, the relation between...
| Published in: | Process studies |
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| Language: | English |
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University of Illinois Press
2015
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Process studies
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| Summary: | The chora is one of the most perplexing as well as neglected concepts in Whitehead’s metaphysics. Explicitly drawing on Plato’s Receptacle Whitehead reinterprets the chora as the place, in between physics and meta-physics, where connections among actual entities happen. However, the relation between Whitehead’s and Plato’s chorai remains widely unexplored. This article aims to correct this oversight. By comparing the two philosophers, I intend to argue that, differences aside, the two philosophers adopted the chora to answer the common question as to how things can be identified in the flux of events. In this way, I hope not only to clarify the obscure role of the chora in Whitehead’s metaphysics and its relation to Plato, but also to explore the complex process of identification. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-3682 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Process studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/44798053 |