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Hartshorne, Charles was born on June 5, 1897 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Francis Cope and Marguerite (Haughton) Hartshorne.
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Charles Hartshorne has set himself the task of formulating the idea of deity "to preserve perhaps even increase, its religious value, while yet avoiding the contradictions which seem inseparable from the idea of customarily defined." This is a brilliant attempt to redefine problems that have long challenged the Western world in its search for understanding both God and man. “The compact, closely reasoned book employs a skill in logic reminiscent of scholasticism at its best to refute traditional notions, scholastic and otherwise, of divine absoluteness, and to expound a conception of God which is both free of contradiction and religiously adequate. The position taken is described by Professor Hartshorne as surrelativism, or panentheism, and these terms indicate the two major emphases of the volume….He who follows its precise logic with the alertness it demands will have a clarifying and enriching experience.”—S. Paul Schiling, Journal of Bible and Religion “In what respects is God absolute and in what respects relative? Or is it meaningless to say that he is both? In a rigorously analytical study Professor Hartshorne explains why he thinks both statements are necessary….One comes from this book with new confidence in the ability of philosophy to attack religious problems and, through careful analysis, to reveal what as alone conceivable must be true.”—J.S. Bixler, Review of Religion “Hartshorne’s work is a major achievement in religious thought because it strives to clear away errors that have been insuperable obstacles to religious search.”—Henry N. Wieman, The Philosophical Review “This book is not merely theoretical, as might be supposed; it has its practical application to the larger social issues of our time, including the problem of democracy.”—Jay William Hudson, Christian Register
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Described as one of the pathbreaking works in 20th-century philosophical theology. this work presents Hartshorne's rehabilitation of Anselm's "Ontological Argument", recast in neoclassical form as "the Modal Proof", along with applications of Hartshorne's method to a variety of issues in contemporary metaphysical and religious thinking.
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First published in 1973, Born to Sing is a monumental undertaking, one of the most comprehensive, totally entertaining studies of bird vocalizations ever available. It offers a global survey of modes of singing, encompassing more than 5,000 species of singing birds, with special analyses of nearly 200 species with highly developed songs. For the professional ornithologist, informed birdwatchers, biologists, psychologists, philosophers, and musicologists with a strong interest in nature.
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Book annotation not available for this title. Title: Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes Author: Hartshorne, Charles Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr Publication Date: 1983/12/01 Number of Pages: Binding Type: PAPERBACK Library of Congress: 83006588
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Part of a series of studies of contemporary philosophers, this volume focuses on Charles Hartshorne. It contains 29 descriptive and critical essays on his philosophy, as well as his intellectual autobiography and detailed replies to the critics.
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Process metaphysician panentheist panpsychist
Hartshorne, Charles was born on June 5, 1897 in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Francis Cope and Marguerite (Haughton) Hartshorne.
Student, Haverford College, 1917. AB, Harvard University, 1921. AM, Harvard University, 1922.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1923. Postgraduate, University Freiburg, Germany, 1925. Postgraduate, University Marburg, 1925.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Haverford College, 1967. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Episcopal Theological Seminary of Southwest, 1977. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Emory University, 1969.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Leuven, Belgium, 1978.
Sheldon travelling fellow Harvard University, 1923-1925, instructor, research fellow, 1925-1928. Member faculty University Chicago, 1928-1955, member federated theological faculty, 1943-1955, professor philosophy, 1949-1955, Emory University, Atlanta, 1955-1962, University Texas, Austin, 1962-1963, Ashbel Smith professor philosophy, 1963-1976, professor emeritus, from 1976. Visiting professor Stanford University, 1937, New School Social Research, 1941-1942, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 1948-1949, University Washington, 1958, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 1966, Colorado College, 1977, 79, University Leuven, 1978.
Terry lecturer Yale, 1947. Fulbright lecturer, Melbourne, 1952. Fulbright professor, Kyoto, Japan, 1958, 66.
Dudleian lecturer Harvard University, 1963. Morse lecturer Union Theological Seminary, 1964. Lowell lecturer Harvard University, 1979, 86.
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( First published in 1973, Born to Sing is a monumental u...)
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(Described as one of the pathbreaking works in 20th-centur...)
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Author: The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation, 1934, Beyond Humanism, 1937, Man's Vision of God, 1941, The Divine Relativity, 1948, Reality as Social Process, 1953, (with Wm. Reese) Philosophers Speak of God, 1953, The Logic of Perfection, 1962 (Lecomte du Noüy award 1963), Anselm's Discovery, 1965, A Natural Theology for Our Time, 1967, Creative Synthesis and Philosophic Method, 1970, Whitehead's Philosophy, 1972, Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song, 1973, second edition, 1992, Aquinas to Whitehead: Seven Centuries of Metaphysics of Religion, 1976, (with Creighton Peden) Whitehead's View of Reality, 1981, Insights and Oversights of Great Thinkers, 1983, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes, 1983, Creativity in American Philosophy, 1984, Wisdom as Moderation: a Philosophy of the Middle Way, 1987, The Darkness and The Light: A Philosopher Reflects On His Fortunate Career and Those Who Made It Possible, 1990, The Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne, 1991, The Library of Living Philosophers, Volunteer 20, 1991. Also numerous articles in professional journals, symposia, and other co-operative vols.
Editor: (with Paul Weiss) The Collected Papers of Charles S. Peirce, 1931-1935.
Charles Sanders Peirce (1931-1935). In The Philosophy and Psychology of Sensation (1934) he drew upon scientific psychology and philosophy to demonstrate that sensation is an evaluative feeling exhibiting continuity, a thesis he subsequently elaborated into a panpsychist or psychalist Philosophy according to which life or feeling Permeates the cosmos, concentrated in individualized centres, identical to Whitehead's ‘actual entities’ or ‘occasions of experience’. Hartshorne held, like Whitehead before him, that recent developments in natural science require a radical fcconccption of nature.
Since nature is rcconceived as an affective continuum of valuational feelings, furthermore, a new theology replaces the classical conception of God. Hartshorne’s speculations came to fruition in his 1946 Terry Lectures at Yale University, published in The Divine Relativity (1947). Hartshorne's process deity has a dipolar nature—an abstract, eternal nature and a concrete, temporal nature.
It mirrors Whitehead's distinction between the primordial and consequent natures of God. The unity of these two aspects of God embraces the World, God being supreme as the eternal-temporal consciousness, knowing and including the world. Hence Hartshorne has advocated panentheism, the doctrine that God includes the world yet transcends it.
Hartshorne has sought to employ the instruments of modal logic to prove the existence of God. Thus he has contributed to the revival of interest in the ontological argument in fecent decades. His endeavours to rehabilitate the reputation of Anselm and to resuscitate the ontological argument illustrate the ‘neo-classical’ Jurn of his thought.
Hartshorne’s hobby in oirdwatching and listening to birdsong has resulted in his international reputation as an ornithologist. He published a prize-winning 'vork. Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
Served with United States Army, 1917-1919. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member American Philosophical Association (president 1948-1949), Metaphys.
Society of America (president 1954-1955), Charles Peirce Society (president 1950-1951), Society for Philosophy of Religion (president 1963-1964), Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology (president 1962-1963).
Married Dorothy Eleanore Cooper, December 22, 1928. 1 child, Emily Lawrence (Mistress Nicolas D. Goodman).