On panentheistic and process theology accounts (Whitehead, Hartshorne), God genuinely lures the world toward beauty and goodness, making divine moral orientation constitutive rather than absent.
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A Whitehead is most commonly **Alfred North Whitehead** (1861-1947), a British mathematician and philosopher who fundamentally shaped modern thought. He's famous for developing process philosophy, the idea that reality is made up of constantly changing events and relationships rather than static objects, and for co-writing an influential mathematics textbook called *Principia Mathematica*. His work bridges mathematics, logic, and philosophy, making him important for understanding how we think about everything from physics to metaphysics.
constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
panentheism(Offered as the best classification of Ramakrishna's position given his affirmation that 'all is Brahman' and that Brahman 'has become everything')
The metaphysical position that the cosmos is contained within and dependent on God/Brahman, but God/Brahman exceeds and is not reducible to the cosmos (Brahman → cosmos, but not cosmos → Brahman)