Western Classics Library: Process and Reality

Author: (British) Alfred North Whitehead, translated by Yang Fubin
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Publish Date: 2003-02-01
Features: This book is the representative work of the renowned British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. It explicitly puts forward and systematically elaborates on the so-called "process philosophy" idea: the universe is a living, vibrant organism, constantly undergoing an eternal process of creation and evolution. What constitutes the universe is not the so-called primordial matter or objective material entities, but rather an "organism" composed of qualities and relationships. The fundamental characteristic of an organism is activity, which manifests as process. Process is a continuous creative process among the elements that constitute the organism, characterized by intrinsic connections, indicating that one organism can transform into another. Thus, the entire universe is revealed as an endless process of dynamic activity.