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Nick Gier

Not a Simple Sum of Interchangeable Parts: Substitutability and Rational Order vs. Aesthetic Order

“Our word “reason” goes back to the Greek verb lego, the verbal noun of which is the famous word logos, which was translated as the Latin ratio. Lego has two principal meanings: “to say” (hence the Word of John’s logos) and “to put together” (related to lechos as the marital couch). (As Whitehead states: “Logic…

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Contrasting the Whiteheadian/Confucian Process Self with the Greco-Roman/Indian Substantial Self

“When we contrast the process self of Whitehead and Confucius to the substantial self, either Greco-Roman or Indian, we immediately see the psychological and philosophical advantages of the former. When Epictetus, for example, reflects about the nature of the self he discovers the true self, one that never sleeps and is never compromised by the…

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