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they are actively engaged in modifying their environment	What did Whitehead state was the biggest indicator of a higher form of life?
living, living well, and living better	What did Whitehead believe are the goals f life?
increasing its own satisfaction	What did Whitehead believe was the fundamental purpose of life?
survival value	Whitehead observes that life is deficient in what?
modifying their environment	What are higher life forms actively engaged in?
three	How many goals of living is there?
increasing its own satisfaction	Whitehead sees life as directed towards what purpose?
unintelligible	Without Whitehead's proposed purpose, life would be what?
"they certainly did not appear because they were better at that game than the rocks around them."	What was Whitehead's response to questions about why complex life evolved?
"the brief Galilean vision of humility"	What was Whitehead's description of God?
"the Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar."	What is Whitehead's most well-known critical statement regarding the Christian notion of God?
primarily a divine king who imposes his will on the world, and whose most important attribute is power	What qualities dis Whitehead state that Christians attributed to their version of God?
God is not necessarily tied to religion	What was Whitehead's belief about God in relation to religion?
primordial nature of God	In what did Whitehead believe that those concepts existed?
the consequent nature	What did Whitehead view as the second nature of God?
dipolar	What type of God did Whitehead believe existed?
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.	Why did Whitehead view the existence of God as a necessity for his metaphysical system?
God's reception of the world's activity	How does Whitehead define he consequent nature of God?
God saves and cherishes all experiences forever	What does Whitehead say that God does with all experiences?
It is the judgment of a tenderness which loses nothing that can be saved.	How does Whitehead describe the judgment of God?
those experiences go on to change the way God interacts with the world	What effect does Whitehead claim that experiences have on God?
God is really changed by what happens in the world and the wider universe, lending the actions of finite creatures an eternal significance.	What conclusion does Whitehead draw about God's treatment of humans' experiences?
deficient in actuality and change	In what way did Whitehead view God as deficient?
merely eternally unrealized possibilities	What did Whitehead claim God would be without the world?
Whitehead thus sees God and the world as fulfilling one another	How does Whitehead view the relationship between God an the world?
He sees entities in the world as fluent and changing things that yearn for a permanence which only God can provide	How does he define entities' need for God?
by taking them into God's self, thereafter changing God and affecting the rest of the universe throughout time	How dis Whitehead believe God provided permanence to entities?
individual	What did Whitehead believe was the basis of religion?
"religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness ... and if you are never solitary, you are never religious."	What is Whitehead's most famous statement on religion?
a system of general truths that transformed a person's character	How did Whitehead define religion?
while religion is often a good influence, it is not necessarily good	How did Whitehead define "dangerous delusion" as it relates to religion?
solitariness	In what state did Whitehead believe religion began?
"the value of the objective world which is a community derivative from the interrelations of its component individuals."	What realization did Whitehead believe religion made necessary?
meaning and value do not exist for the individual alone, but only in the context of the universal community	What did Whitehead believe was necessary for an entity to have meaning and value?
The spirit at once surrenders itself to this universal claim and appropriates it for itself	How does Whitehead describe religion as world-loyalty?
the individual and universal/social aspects of religion are mutually dependent	What did Whitehead believe was the relationship between the individual and social aspects of religion?
through the work of his students and admirers rather	Where has interest outside of those areas mainly come from?
Bruno Latour	What French sociologist and anthropologist stated that Whitehead was "the greatest philosopher of the 20th century"?
Claremont and a select number of liberal graduate-level theology and philosophy programs	Where are Whitehead's works primarily studied in English-speaking countries?
Bertrand Russell, and he also taught and supervised the dissertation of Willard Van Orman Quine	Who are two of Whitehead's students that have gone on to become renowned in the field of analytic philosophy?
"he stands provisionally as the last great Anglo-American philosopher before Wittgenstein's disciples spread their misty confusion, sufficiency, and terror."	What did Gilles Deleuze say about Whitehead?
American progressive theology	In what field of study has Whitehead's work been most influential in the United States?
Charles Hartshorne	Who was the most important early supporter of Whitehead's work in the context of theology?
developing Whitehead's process philosophy into a full-blown process theology	What advancement of Whitehead's process philosophy is attributed to Charles Hartshorne?
John B. Cobb, Jr., David Ray Griffin, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, C. Robert Mesle, Roland Faber, and Catherine Keller	Who are some other distinguished process theologians?
God's relational nature	What aspect of God is usually emphasized in process theology?
"the fellow sufferer who understands", and as the being who is supremely affected by temporal events	How is God usually perceived by process theologians?
people would not praise a human ruler who was unaffected by either the joys or sorrows of his followers – so why would this be a praise-worthy quality in God?	Why did Hartshorne feel that God must be affected by people?
as the being who is most affected by the world, God is the being who can most appropriately respond to the world	Why would God being substantially affected by the world be beneficial?
"process naturalism", i.e. a process theology without God.	What type of process theology does C. Robert Mesle promote?
biology and economics	What subjects has John B. Cobb, Jr. written books on other than process theology?
poststructuralist, postcolonialist, and feminist theory	What theories do Roland Faber and Catherine Keller combine with Whitehead's ideas?
geneticist	What was Charles Birch's profession besides theologian?
Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist	Who authored "Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age"?
process theologians are so diverse and transdisciplinary in their views and interests	Why is there difficulty in defining process theology ?
"an ultimate craving to infuse into the insistent particularity of emotion that non-temporal generality which primarily belongs to conceptual thought alone."	What was Whitehead's technical definition of religion?
religion takes deeply felt emotions and contextualizes them within a system of general truths about the world	What did Whitehead believe religion did with strong emotions?
a kind of bridge between philosophy and the emotions and purposes of a particular society	What purpose did Whitehead believe religion served?
It is the task of religion to make philosophy applicable to the everyday lives of ordinary people.	What did Whitehead believe was the job of religion regarding philosophy?
pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior	What is Mary Parker Follett known for?
ontology that "understands becoming as a relational process; difference as being related, yet unique; and the purpose of becoming as harmonizing difference."	What do Margaret Stout and Carrie M. Staton view as commonalities between Whitehead and Follett?
Integrative Process: Follettian Thinking from Ontology to Administration	What book did Stout and Jeanine M. Love author that further examines the on between Whitehead and Follett?
continue to invest client funds in over-priced (under-yielding) investments	What did many asset managers decide to do to the detriment of their clients?
a conflict of interest	What led to bad investments by asset managers in over-priced credit assets?
Professional investment managers	Who is compensated based on the volume of client assets they have under management?
to maximize their compensation	What is the incentive for asset managers to expand their assets under management?
plausible deniability	What rationale did asset managers who continued to invest in over-priced investments to the detriment of their clients use?
Countrywide Financial	Who was Southern California-based IndyMac a spin-off of?
July 11, 2008	On what date did IndyMac fail?
IndyMac	Which financial institution was the first one visible to run into trouble in the United States?
IndyMac Bank	Before its failure, which savings and loan association was the seventh largest mortgage originator in the United States?
IndyMac Bancorp	Who was IndyMac's parent corporation?
April 2008	When did Moody's and Standard & Poor downgrade a significant number of IndyMac's MBS bonds?
9.27%	If IndyMac's downgraded MBS bond ratings had been in effect at March 31, 2008, what would the bank's capital ratio have been?
$160 million	What was the value of IndyMac's MBS bonds retained in its MBS portfolio that were downgraded in April 2008?
Moody's	What was one of the agencies that downgraded a significant number of IndyMac's MBS bonds in April 2008?
minimum 10% risk-based	What is a well capitalized ratio?
Charles Schumer (D-NY)	Who is the Senator that asked FDIC if it had considered ordering IndyMac to reduce its reliance on brokered deposits?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	What does the abbreviation FDIC stand for?
a little over $7 billion	How much of IndyMac's total deposits of $18.9 billion on March 31, 2008 were considered brokered deposits?
June 30	Had the FDIC disallowed IndyMac from acquiring new brokered deposits on this date, the threat of brokered deposit losses would have been $500 million a month?
$500 million	How much was the threat of brokered deposit losses per month to IndyMac?
$1.55 billion	How much in deposits did account holders withdraw from IndyMac in late June 2008?
7.5%	What percent of IndyMac's deposits were withdrawn by account holders in late June 2008?
$10.7 billion	What was the value of loans IndyMac was forced to hold when the secondary mortgage market collapsed in late 2007?
Charles Schumer	Who is the Senator that released a letter to the FDIC and OTS that prompted a "run" on IndyMac?
unsafe and unsound manner in which the thrift was operated	What was the underlying cause of the failure on IndyMac?
IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB	What was the name of the bridge bank established to assume control of IndyMac Bank's assets, liabilities and deposit accounts?
US$100,000	What is the maximum amount of funds the FDIC guarantees in insured accounts?
roughly 10,000 depositors	How many IndyMac account holders held funds in excess of the FDIC's insured amount of US$100,000?
July 11, 2008	On what date did the FDIC put IndyMac Bank into conservatorship?
July 14, 2008	On what date did the FDIC plan to open IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB?
Over 100	How many mortgage lenders went bankrupt during 2007 and 2008?
Bear Stearns	Who is the investment bank that was feared to collapse in March 2008 and was sold in a fire-sale to JP Morgan Chase?
September and October 2008	When did the financial institution crisis hit its peak?
Oct. 6, 2008	When did Lehman's former CEO appear before Representative Henry A. Waxman?
Lehman Brothers	What firm filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history?
money market funds	The equivalent of a bank run on which funds occurred in September 2008?
commercial paper issued by corporations	What do money market funds frequently invest in?
September 2008	When did the financial crisis hit its most critical stage?

they are actively engaged in modifying their environment

What did Whitehead state was the biggest indicator of a higher form of life?

living, living well, and living better

What did Whitehead believe are the goals f life?

increasing its own satisfaction

What did Whitehead believe was the fundamental purpose of life?

survival value

Whitehead observes that life is deficient in what?

modifying their environment

What are higher life forms actively engaged in?

three

How many goals of living is there?

increasing its own satisfaction

Whitehead sees life as directed towards what purpose?

unintelligible

Without Whitehead's proposed purpose, life would be what?

"they certainly did not appear because they were better at that game than the rocks around them."

What was Whitehead's response to questions about why complex life evolved?

"the brief Galilean vision of humility"

What was Whitehead's description of God?

"the Church gave unto God the attributes which belonged exclusively to Caesar."

What is Whitehead's most well-known critical statement regarding the Christian notion of God?

primarily a divine king who imposes his will on the world, and whose most important attribute is power

What qualities dis Whitehead state that Christians attributed to their version of God?

God is not necessarily tied to religion

What was Whitehead's belief about God in relation to religion?

primordial nature of God

In what did Whitehead believe that those concepts existed?

the consequent nature

What did Whitehead view as the second nature of God?

dipolar

What type of God did Whitehead believe existed?

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.

Why did Whitehead view the existence of God as a necessity for his metaphysical system?

God's reception of the world's activity

How does Whitehead define he consequent nature of God?

God saves and cherishes all experiences forever

What does Whitehead say that God does with all experiences?

It is the judgment of a tenderness which loses nothing that can be saved.

How does Whitehead describe the judgment of God?

those experiences go on to change the way God interacts with the world

What effect does Whitehead claim that experiences have on God?

God is really changed by what happens in the world and the wider universe, lending the actions of finite creatures an eternal significance.

What conclusion does Whitehead draw about God's treatment of humans' experiences?

deficient in actuality and change

In what way did Whitehead view God as deficient?

merely eternally unrealized possibilities

What did Whitehead claim God would be without the world?

Whitehead thus sees God and the world as fulfilling one another

How does Whitehead view the relationship between God an the world?

He sees entities in the world as fluent and changing things that yearn for a permanence which only God can provide

How does he define entities' need for God?

by taking them into God's self, thereafter changing God and affecting the rest of the universe throughout time

How dis Whitehead believe God provided permanence to entities?

individual

What did Whitehead believe was the basis of religion?

"religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness ... and if you are never solitary, you are never religious."

What is Whitehead's most famous statement on religion?

a system of general truths that transformed a person's character

How did Whitehead define religion?

while religion is often a good influence, it is not necessarily good

How did Whitehead define "dangerous delusion" as it relates to religion?

solitariness

In what state did Whitehead believe religion began?

"the value of the objective world which is a community derivative from the interrelations of its component individuals."

What realization did Whitehead believe religion made necessary?

meaning and value do not exist for the individual alone, but only in the context of the universal community

What did Whitehead believe was necessary for an entity to have meaning and value?

The spirit at once surrenders itself to this universal claim and appropriates it for itself

How does Whitehead describe religion as world-loyalty?

the individual and universal/social aspects of religion are mutually dependent

What did Whitehead believe was the relationship between the individual and social aspects of religion?

through the work of his students and admirers rather

Where has interest outside of those areas mainly come from?

Bruno Latour

What French sociologist and anthropologist stated that Whitehead was "the greatest philosopher of the 20th century"?

Claremont and a select number of liberal graduate-level theology and philosophy programs

Where are Whitehead's works primarily studied in English-speaking countries?

Bertrand Russell, and he also taught and supervised the dissertation of Willard Van Orman Quine

Who are two of Whitehead's students that have gone on to become renowned in the field of analytic philosophy?

"he stands provisionally as the last great Anglo-American philosopher before Wittgenstein's disciples spread their misty confusion, sufficiency, and terror."

What did Gilles Deleuze say about Whitehead?

American progressive theology

In what field of study has Whitehead's work been most influential in the United States?

Charles Hartshorne

Who was the most important early supporter of Whitehead's work in the context of theology?

developing Whitehead's process philosophy into a full-blown process theology

What advancement of Whitehead's process philosophy is attributed to Charles Hartshorne?

John B. Cobb, Jr., David Ray Griffin, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, C. Robert Mesle, Roland Faber, and Catherine Keller

Who are some other distinguished process theologians?

God's relational nature

What aspect of God is usually emphasized in process theology?

"the fellow sufferer who understands", and as the being who is supremely affected by temporal events

How is God usually perceived by process theologians?

people would not praise a human ruler who was unaffected by either the joys or sorrows of his followers – so why would this be a praise-worthy quality in God?

Why did Hartshorne feel that God must be affected by people?

as the being who is most affected by the world, God is the being who can most appropriately respond to the world

Why would God being substantially affected by the world be beneficial?

"process naturalism", i.e. a process theology without God.

What type of process theology does C. Robert Mesle promote?

biology and economics

What subjects has John B. Cobb, Jr. written books on other than process theology?

poststructuralist, postcolonialist, and feminist theory

What theories do Roland Faber and Catherine Keller combine with Whitehead's ideas?

geneticist

What was Charles Birch's profession besides theologian?

Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist

Who authored "Syntheism - Creating God in the Internet Age"?

process theologians are so diverse and transdisciplinary in their views and interests

Why is there difficulty in defining process theology ?

"an ultimate craving to infuse into the insistent particularity of emotion that non-temporal generality which primarily belongs to conceptual thought alone."

What was Whitehead's technical definition of religion?

religion takes deeply felt emotions and contextualizes them within a system of general truths about the world

What did Whitehead believe religion did with strong emotions?

a kind of bridge between philosophy and the emotions and purposes of a particular society

What purpose did Whitehead believe religion served?

It is the task of religion to make philosophy applicable to the everyday lives of ordinary people.

What did Whitehead believe was the job of religion regarding philosophy?

pioneer in the fields of organizational theory and organizational behavior

What is Mary Parker Follett known for?

ontology that "understands becoming as a relational process; difference as being related, yet unique; and the purpose of becoming as harmonizing difference."

What do Margaret Stout and Carrie M. Staton view as commonalities between Whitehead and Follett?

Integrative Process: Follettian Thinking from Ontology to Administration

What book did Stout and Jeanine M. Love author that further examines the on between Whitehead and Follett?

continue to invest client funds in over-priced (under-yielding) investments

What did many asset managers decide to do to the detriment of their clients?

a conflict of interest

What led to bad investments by asset managers in over-priced credit assets?

Professional investment managers

Who is compensated based on the volume of client assets they have under management?

to maximize their compensation

What is the incentive for asset managers to expand their assets under management?

plausible deniability

What rationale did asset managers who continued to invest in over-priced investments to the detriment of their clients use?

Countrywide Financial

Who was Southern California-based IndyMac a spin-off of?

July 11, 2008

On what date did IndyMac fail?

IndyMac

Which financial institution was the first one visible to run into trouble in the United States?

IndyMac Bank

Before its failure, which savings and loan association was the seventh largest mortgage originator in the United States?

IndyMac Bancorp

Who was IndyMac's parent corporation?

April 2008

When did Moody's and Standard & Poor downgrade a significant number of IndyMac's MBS bonds?

9.27%

If IndyMac's downgraded MBS bond ratings had been in effect at March 31, 2008, what would the bank's capital ratio have been?

$160 million

What was the value of IndyMac's MBS bonds retained in its MBS portfolio that were downgraded in April 2008?

Moody's

What was one of the agencies that downgraded a significant number of IndyMac's MBS bonds in April 2008?

minimum 10% risk-based

What is a well capitalized ratio?

Charles Schumer (D-NY)

Who is the Senator that asked FDIC if it had considered ordering IndyMac to reduce its reliance on brokered deposits?

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

What does the abbreviation FDIC stand for?

a little over $7 billion

How much of IndyMac's total deposits of $18.9 billion on March 31, 2008 were considered brokered deposits?

June 30

Had the FDIC disallowed IndyMac from acquiring new brokered deposits on this date, the threat of brokered deposit losses would have been $500 million a month?

$500 million

How much was the threat of brokered deposit losses per month to IndyMac?

$1.55 billion

How much in deposits did account holders withdraw from IndyMac in late June 2008?

7.5%

What percent of IndyMac's deposits were withdrawn by account holders in late June 2008?

$10.7 billion

What was the value of loans IndyMac was forced to hold when the secondary mortgage market collapsed in late 2007?

Charles Schumer

Who is the Senator that released a letter to the FDIC and OTS that prompted a "run" on IndyMac?

unsafe and unsound manner in which the thrift was operated

What was the underlying cause of the failure on IndyMac?

IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB

What was the name of the bridge bank established to assume control of IndyMac Bank's assets, liabilities and deposit accounts?

US$100,000

What is the maximum amount of funds the FDIC guarantees in insured accounts?

roughly 10,000 depositors

How many IndyMac account holders held funds in excess of the FDIC's insured amount of US$100,000?

July 11, 2008

On what date did the FDIC put IndyMac Bank into conservatorship?

July 14, 2008

On what date did the FDIC plan to open IndyMac Federal Bank, FSB?

Over 100

How many mortgage lenders went bankrupt during 2007 and 2008?

Bear Stearns

Who is the investment bank that was feared to collapse in March 2008 and was sold in a fire-sale to JP Morgan Chase?

September and October 2008

When did the financial institution crisis hit its peak?

Oct. 6, 2008

When did Lehman's former CEO appear before Representative Henry A. Waxman?

Lehman Brothers

What firm filed the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history?

money market funds

The equivalent of a bank run on which funds occurred in September 2008?

commercial paper issued by corporations

What do money market funds frequently invest in?

September 2008

When did the financial crisis hit its most critical stage?