Ethical View from Living Structure

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Living structure might even be defined as 'that which pleases us'—that which truly pleases us.claim0.783
  A proposed operational definition of living structure in terms of genuine pleasure.
• Living structure may be identified empirically by the extent to which it is a picture of one's self.claim0.782
  Alexander claims there is an empirical method for identifying living structure via reference to the universal entity within each person.
• Living structure is at once structural and personal, uniting objective and subjective and potentially bridging the bifurcation of nature described by Whitehead.claim0.776
  From the concluding Part Two interlude, asserting a synthesis of science and feeling.
• The structure we know as living structure is just that kind of structure which has unfolded smoothly and naturally, arising step by step from what exists, preserving the structure of what exists.claim0.770
  Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.765
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.764
• What is the impact of living structure on human life?question0.761
  Opening question of the chapter.
• The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.755
  The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.