| Abbreviations | 24 |
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| General Introduction | 27 |
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| Part One: Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Becoming | 43 |
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| 1 Metaphysics of Becoming: Setting the Context | 47 |
| 1.1 Greek Philosophy to Scientific Materialism | 48 |
| 1.2 Whitehead’s Response to the Greek Outlook of Nature | 49 |
| 1.2.1 The Emergence of Materialism in Modernity | 51 |
| 1.2.1.1 The Doctrine of Simple Location | 54 |
| 1.2.1.2 Whitehead and Classical Physics | 55 |
| 1.2.1.3 The Metaphysical Dualism of ‘Res Extensa and Res Cogitans’ | 57 |
| 1.2.1.4 Newton’s Mechanistic View of the Universe | 60 |
| 1.2.2 Whitehead’s Response to Scientific Materialism | 61 |
| 1.3 The Positive Influences | 64 |
| 1.3.1 The Re-construction of Physical Sciences | 64 |
| 1.3.2 The Romantic Movement | 65 |
| 1.3.3 An Inevitable Shift in Methodology | 67 |
| 2 Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Indefinite Pluralities in Becoming | 71 |
| 2.1 Being to Beingness in Becoming | 71 |
| 2.1.1 The Fundamental Principle of Becoming | 73 |
| 2.1.2 The Enigma of Becoming | 75 |
| 2.2 Fundamental Reality in Whitehead | 77 |
| 2.2.1 Actual Occasion: the Dynamic Subject | 79 |
| 2.2.2 The Constitution of an Actual Occasion | 80 |
| 2.2.2.1 The Theory of Concrescence | 81 |
| 2.2.2.2 The Concept of Prehension | 82 |
| 2.2.2.3 Satisfaction | 87 |
| 2.3 The Characteristics of Actual Occasion | 89 |
| 2.3.1 Actual Occasion: A Unity of the Physical and Mental Poles | 90 |
| 2.3.1.1 The Physical Pole | 91 |
| 2.3.1.2 The Conceptual Pole | 91 |
| 2.3.2 Actual Occasion: A Self-actualising Concrescence | 92 |
| 2.3.3 Actual Occasion: An Experience of Being Subject-Superject | 95 |
| 2.4 The Eternal Objects: Pure Potentials for Actual Occasion | 96 |
| 2.4.1 The Ontological Necessity of the Eternal Objects | 97 |
| 2.4.2 The Complimentarity of the Actual and the Eternal | 99 |
| 3 Creativity: The Raison d’être of Becoming | 101 |
| 3.1 The Distinctive Features of Creativity | 101 |
| 3.1.1 The Emergence of the Concept Creativity | 102 |
| 3.1.2 Creativity: The Pure Notion of the Activity | 104 |
| 3.1.3 Creativity: A Meta-theoretical Concept | 105 |
| 3.2 Creativity: the Metaphysical Ultimate in Whitehead | 107 |
| 3.3 Different Interpretations of Creativity | 109 |
| 3.3.1 Creativity: The Self-Caused Subjective Feeling | 109 |
| 3.3.2 Creativity: Monistic or Pluralistic? | 110 |
| 3.3.3 Creativity as Eternal Object | 112 |
| 3.3.4 Creativity as Future Becoming | 113 |
| 3.4 Creativity: The Raison d’être of Becoming | 115 |
| 3.4.1 Creativity: the Innate Nature of Every Actuality | 115 |
| 3.4.2 Creativity: the Principle of Creative Advance | 117 |
| 3.4.3 Creativity: the Principle of Novelty | 119 |
| 4 God and the Metaphysics of Becoming | 122 |
| 4.1 God and the Metaphysical Principles | 122 |
| 4.2 God and the Metaphysics of Becoming | 124 |
| 4.2.1 God: A Metaphysical Necessity | 125 |
| 4.2.2 God: An Actual Entity | 127 |
| 4.2.3 The Dipolar Nature of God | 127 |
| 4.2.3.1 The Primordial Nature of God | 129 |
| 4.2.3.2 The Consequent Nature of God | 130 |
| 4.2.4 God: The Principle of Limitation | 134 |
| 4.2.5 The Vindication of the Refuted | 136 |
| 4.3 God-World Relation in Whitehead’s Metaphysics of Becoming | 140 |
| 4.3.1 God the Creator and the Metaphysics of Becoming | 141 |
| 4.3.2 God: the Reservoir of Potentiality | 143 |
| 4.3.3 God: the Source of Novelty | 145 |
| 4.3.4 God: the Principle of Order and Harmony | 146 |
| 4.3.5 God: the Source of the Initial Aim | 147 |
| 4.4 The Religious Significance of Whitehead’s God | 149 |
| 4.4.1 The Complexity of the Subject | 150 |
| 4.4.2 The Goodness of God versus the Will of God | 153 |
| 4.4.3 God: the Wisdom that Permeates the Universe | 156 |
| 4.4.4 Metaphysics of Becoming without God | 158 |
| Part Two: Aurobindo’s Integral Advaita and the Metaphysics of Becoming | 163 |
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| 5 Integral Advaita: Its Place within the Indian Philosophical Tradition | 167 |
| 5.1 Fundamental Presuppositions of Aurobindo’s Metaphysics | 168 |
| 5.2 Aurobindo and Vedanta Philosophy | 170 |
| 5.2.1 Aurobindo and Advaita Philosophy of Shankara | 171 |
| 5.2.1.1 Shankara’s Theory of Reality | 172 |
| 5.2.1.2 Aurobindo’s Response to Absolute Non-Dualism | 175 |
| 5.2.2 Aurobindo and the Vishishtadvaita of Ramanuja | 177 |
| 5.2.2.1 Ramanuja’s Theory of Reality | 177 |
| 5.2.2.2 Aurobindo’s Response to Qualified Non-Dualism | 180 |
| 5.2.3 Dvaitavata of Madhva | 181 |
| 5.2.3.1 Theory of Difference and Dependence | 182 |
| 5.2.3.2 The Ontology of Madhva | 183 |
| 5.2.3.3 Aurobindo and Absolute Dualism | 184 |
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