Modes of thought
An English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead provided the foundation for the school of thought known as process philosophy. With an academic career that spanned from Cambridge to Harvard, Whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. Modes of Thought by Alfred North Whitehead includes chapters on creative impulses and activities as well as the overall aim of philosophy.
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- Reading excerpts from Process and Reality and Modes of Thought, on the one hand, ignites hunger for a greater understanding, but on the other hand, highlights the lack thereof and, in today's day and age, the impossibility of a possible fruition.
Susan Sontag, in effect:
> We read writers [Weil, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche] of such scathing originality for their personal authority, for the example of their seriousness, for their manifest willingness to sacrifice themselves for their truths, and—only piecemeal—for their "views." As the corrupt Alcibiades followed Socrates, unable and unwilling to change his own life, but moved, enriched, and full of love; so the sensitive modern reader pays his respect to a level of spiritual reality which is not, could not, be his own.
- "Aesthetics and logic are both concerned with the enjoyment of a composition, as derived from the interconnections of its factors." -- Alfred North Whitehead, "Modes of Thought".
I wonder how this ties up with Naur's classical "Programming as Theory Building"? Also worth mentioning Gang of Four software patterns and their relation to the work and aesthetical thinking of Christopher Alexander (cf. "The Nature of Order").
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