Expanding process: Exploring philosophical and theological transformations in china and the west (review) [Book Review]

Philosophy East and West 61 (4):741-744 (2011)
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Expanding Process, Exploring Philosophical and Theological Transformations in China and the West, by John Berthrong, is a model study of processive motifs in Chinese traditions and their contributions to global process-relational philosophy. Process-relational philosophy, which became a full-fledged school of thought in the twentieth century with the works of Alfred North Whitehead and the American Pragmatists, conceives of reality as constant flux. This metaphysical view is opposed to the substance-ontological view, which understands reality as a composition of timeless, discrete substances, such as Plato's Forms. In working to move process philosophy out of its Whiteheadian and American roots, Berthrong draws out

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