『過程と実在』とその周辺

『過程と実在』とその周辺

ホワイトヘッドの主著『過程と実在』と、その前後の著作について解説します。ただし、『過程と実在』は極めて難解な著作ですので、細かい説明は『過程と実在』注解のコーナーで解説するとして、ここでは、入門的な解説と、ホワイトヘッド哲学全体の中での位置づけについて解説するにとどめます。

(現在、執筆中)

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ホワイトヘッドの研究史と諸問題
The various human interests which suggest cosmologies, and also are influenced by them, are science, aesthetics, ethics, religion. … Philosophy, in one of its functions, is the critic of cosmologies. … It has to insist on the scrutiny of the ultimate ideas, and on the retention of the whole of the evidence in shaping our cosmological scheme. (SMW vii)
Philosophy is akin to poetry, and both of them seek to express that ultimate good sense which we term civilization. In each case there is reference to form beyond the direct meanings of words. Poetry allies itself to metre, philsophy to mathematic pattern. (MT 174)
Exactness is a fake. (「不滅性 112」)

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