His system required that an order exist among possibilities, an order that allowed for novelty in the world and provided an aim to all entities. Whitehead posited that these ordered potentials exist in what he called the primordial nature of God.
Why did Whitehead view the existence of God as a necessity for his metaphysical system?
His system required that an order exist among possibilities, an order that allowed for novelty in the world and provided an aim to all entities.