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News: December 2000 / January 2001

Charles Hartshorne dies • Dutch legalise euthanasia • Amnesty protests about death row toy • Mayor says “come round for some philosophy!”

Charles Hartshorne

Charles Hartshorne has died in Austin, Texas, at the great age of 103. Dr Hartshorne was a prolific writer, publishing his last work when he was 98 years old.

The main thrust of his work throughout his life was to promote ‘process theology’. The theory was based on the ‘process philosophy’ of Alfred North Whitehead, which holds that basic reality is not substance but an unremitting process of change. Hartshorne developed Whitehead’s theory in a way which led to a radically new view of God’s essential nature.

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