DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DC001-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved May 30, 2023, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/alexander-samuel-1859-1938/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved May 30, 2023, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/alexander-samuel-1859-1938/v-1
Article Summary
Alexander propounded a metaphysical system based on a view of Space-Time differentiated into ‘motions’ from which new qualities emerged at certain levels of organization; matter, life and mind being those qualities so far realized. Space-Time is a process with a ‘nisus’ (that is, an internal drive) towards a quality, as yet unrealized, called ‘Deity’.
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