Process and Reality

Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: This book is the representative work of the renowned British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. It explicitly puts forward and systematically discusses the concept of "process philosophy": the universe is a living, vibrant organism, constantly engaged in an eternal process of creation and evolution. What constitutes the universe is not primordial matter or objective material substance, but rather an "organism" composed of qualities and relationships. The fundamental characteristic of an organism is activity, which manifests as process. Process refers to the continuous creative process among the elements that constitute the organism, reflecting that one organism can transform into another. Thus, the entire universe is revealed as an ever-renewing process of activity.