Whitehead considers that philosophy has a close relationship with religion and science. We could add in this respect that philosophy, like religion, aims at an integration of the individual into the universal. It aims at finding a general scheme of thought that can answer not only to the rational needs of the individual but also …
Whitehead’s philosophical approach is based mainly on descriptive generalization. In this respect, he considers deduction as the method of mathematics, and the borrowing of this method by philosophy an error for the latter’s method of descriptive generalization (Whitehead 1978, p.10). Indeed, philosophy starts with concrete situations and experiences which it attempts to explain. It sees …
Whitehead says that in every philosophical theory, there is an ultimate that is endowed with accidents (Whitehead, 1978, p. 7). In Whitehead, this ultimate is creativity. Accidents are necessary in order to characterize things. The logical meaning of accidents is predicates that are enounced about a logical subject. You do not know anything about something …
Have you ever thought that during our lives, we constantly reshape the content of the experiences we make so that they match a specific personal pattern, a specific self-perception? To give a very intuitive example: a man who despises women might constantly misinterpret the behaviors of any woman he meets so that that behavior becomes …