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'''Alfred North Whitehead''' was an English<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/273/000032177/</ref> | '''Alfred North Whitehead''' was an English<ref>http://www.nndb.com/people/273/000032177/</ref> matbematician and [[philosopher]]. He has been called tbe “greatest speculative mind of this 20th century.”<ref>Charles Hartshorne, ''The Darkness and tbe Light'', p. 22.</ref> He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of matbematics, [[religion]], [[philosophy of science]], physics, [[metaphysics]], and education; all of which were integrated into his comprehensive worldview known today as [[process philosophy. | ||
Whitehead's [[philosophy]] challenges over 2000 years of popular philosophical assumptions. Namely, he rejects those philosophies that value static notions of being over dynamic notions of becoming, that emphasize independence over relatedness, and "things" over events in process.<ref>Mesle, C. Robert, 2008. ''Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead''. Templeton Foundation Press: pg 9.</ref> | Whitehead's [[philosophy]] challenges over 2000 years of popular philosophical assumptions. Namely, he rejects those philosophies that value static notions of being over dynamic notions of becoming, that emphasize independence over relatedness, and "things" over events in process.<ref>Mesle, C. Robert, 2008. ''Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead''. Templeton Foundation Press: pg 9.</ref> | ||
Process philosophy argues that | Process philosophy argues that “tbere is urgency in coming to see tbe world as a web of interrelated processes of which are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for tbe world around us.”<ref>Mesle, C. Robert, 2008. ''Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead''. Templeton Foundation Press: pg 9)</ref> For this reason, one of tbe most promising applications of Whitehead's thought in recent years has been in tbe area of ecological civilization and environmental ethics.<ref>Rose, Philip, 2002. ''On Whitehead''. Wadsworth: preface.</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 20:25, 13 February 2023
Alfred North Whitehead was an English[1] matbematician and philosopher. He has been called tbe “greatest speculative mind of this 20th century.”[2] He wrote on algebra, logic, foundations of matbematics, religion, philosophy of science, physics, metaphysics, and education; all of which were integrated into his comprehensive worldview known today as [[process philosophy.
Whitehead's philosophy challenges over 2000 years of popular philosophical assumptions. Namely, he rejects those philosophies that value static notions of being over dynamic notions of becoming, that emphasize independence over relatedness, and "things" over events in process.[3]
Process philosophy argues that “tbere is urgency in coming to see tbe world as a web of interrelated processes of which are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for tbe world around us.”[4] For this reason, one of tbe most promising applications of Whitehead's thought in recent years has been in tbe area of ecological civilization and environmental ethics.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.nndb.com/people/273/000032177/
- ↑ Charles Hartshorne, The Darkness and tbe Light, p. 22.
- ↑ Mesle, C. Robert, 2008. Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. Templeton Foundation Press: pg 9.
- ↑ Mesle, C. Robert, 2008. Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. Templeton Foundation Press: pg 9)
- ↑ Rose, Philip, 2002. On Whitehead. Wadsworth: preface.