On Feelings

Whitehead distinguishes a difference between 'physical feelings' and 'hybrid' feelings - hybrid relating to feelings associated with abstractions, what he also calls 'conceptual feelings':

>... physical feelings give rise to conceptual feelings, and conceptual feelings give rise to other conceptual feelings... Part III Chapt III Sect II

He talks about 'imaginative feelings' as being distinct from 'perceptive feelings':

>The difference between the two feelings, the perceptive feeling and the imaginative feeling, does not therefore lie in the proposition which is felt. It lies in the emotional patterns of the two feelings. Part III Chapt V Sect VI

We then sense an important pattern in Whitehead's thinking, how lower level feeling can extend to higher level feeling, where physical feelings give rise to conceptual feelings that, in turn, give rise to imaginative feelings.

As we build a Culture of Wonder we sense the importance of purpose, a vision felt in that which can not be seen, held in the mind's eye. It's toward this vision, and Imago Image that we set out beyond the known, experiencing Epistemic Surprise.

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