Index 143 act of existing, xi, 20; and bipolarity, 103; conceptually invisible, 21; and human experience, 20, 63, 120; and potentiality, 21; structure of, 61, 120 actual entity: its genesis in Whitehead, 129n12; and motion, 130n3 (chap. 6) actuality and possibility, 21–22 agency: and experience, 25, 27, 55–56; and freedom, 59–60 aims: description of, 25; and existence, 24; participation of aims, 68–69; and the universe, 64; and value, 24. See also essential aims; immediate aims Alpha: as Alpha/Omega, 86, 94; and the bipolarity of existing, 101, 108; as furnishing the act of existing, 101, 103, 107, 121, 124; and God, 78; as origin of aims, 87, 91, 94, 100–101, 108, 112, 121, 124; as source of existing and value, 24, 78, 81, 85 animal generation, 90, 95, 102 appearance and reality, 4–5 Aquinas, Saint Thomas: on the causal activity of heavenly bodies, 111; on existing as the ground of value, 28, 61, 121; and the “Five Ways,” 78; on the human drive toward God, 124; on participation of existing, xi, 71–75, 77–78; on substantial form, 84, 89–90; on teleology, 36, 129n10; and “Thomas,” 128n4; on unitary beings, 67; on the universal order of possibility, 86 Felt-19.Index 7/27/07 2:55 PM Page 143 Aristotle: on cause and effect, 22, 46, 50, 129n8; on primary beings, 30, 61, 84; on ultimate aim, happiness, 19–22, 121; on unitary beings, 67 Augustine, Saint, on time, 42 becoming, “horizontal” dimension , 72; “vertical” dimension , coming to be, 72 beings. See primary beings Bergson, Henri, xi, 3, 30; on the possible and the real, 132n5 (chap. 9) Berkeley, George, xi Big Bang theory, 134n5 (chap. 12) bipolarity: of the act of existing, 75–76, 86, 94, 103, 133n5; in experience of subjectobject , 13, 27–28 causal efficacy (Whitehead), 27 causal influence, 10, 119 causes: Aristotle on cause and effect, 22; effective (efficient) and final, 22, 24, 58, 94, 102–3; feeling of causal influence, 22, 46; and origination, 58 Clarke, W. Norris, S. J., xii, 108–10, 113, 128n5 (chap. 1); on participation of existing, 133n6 (chap. 11); review of Coming To Be, 108 consciousness, 3 continuity: of object-time, 40; of space, 39–40, 130n5; of subject-time, 43 cosmic process, 6–7 cosmological argument for God, from participation of existing, 77–79 creation, as a unique act, 74–75, 133n4 Creativity, Whitehead’s Principle of, 135n5 (chap. 15) Darwinian natural selection, 85 deism, 113 derivation: and causal connectedness, 29; experience of, 10, 63, 119; of present from past, 129n1; and temporal structure, 29 Descartes, René: and appearance and reality, 5; on metaphysical method, 118; on space, 39 Desmond, William, on “coming to be” and “becoming,” 133n3 Eddington, Arthur, 47–48 Einstein, Albert, on simultaneity, 49 essential aims: and Alpha, 102–3; description of, 32, 62; feeling of, 12, 22, 64, 105; and freedom, 33; and initial aims (Whitehead), 93; origin of, 83–88, 96, 107; relation to essential character, 32; relation to formal and final causality, 33; relation to the world, 48–49; requirements for, 85, 104; as self-ideals, 119; — A I M S 144 Felt-19.Index 7/27/07 2:55 PM Page 144 [18.118.120.109] Project MUSE (2024-04-17 14:54 GMT) and subjective aims (Whitehead), 87, 94; and substantial form (Aquinas), 89; and the unity of a complex being, 67–68, 120, 133n6 (chap. 10) essential character: description of, 32, 62; relation to essential aim, 32, 62, 133n6 (chap. 10) eternal objects (Whitehead), 129n7 existing, act of: as actualizing potentiality, 32; and essential character, 32; as participated act, 71–76; and time, 32 experience: and act of existing, 21, 25, 63; as bipolar, 25, 27–28; and objects, 9–10, 120; and possibility, 63–64; of self-identity over time, 67; and structure of all beings, 30; of value, 28 “Five Ways” of Aquinas, 78, 115, 136n20 form of definiteness, 63 freedom, 55–60; and agency, 55, 59–60; in all activity as goal-oriented, 64; causal arguments against, 57–59; external and internal, 55–56; in nature, 60, 114; not demonstrable or refutable, 56 Gilson, Etienne: on nature of metaphysics, ix; on philosophic principles, 19, 104 goal-directedness: of experiencing , 44; in nature, 22–25, 64. See also teleology God: as active in nature, 90, 100; and Alpha, 78; and goal-orientation of entities, 108–9; and participation, 74, 77–81; as source of existing, 107 Gold, Thomas, on choosing hypotheses...