Proces i realność. Szkic kosmologiczny. Rozdział X
Process and Reality. An essay in cosmology. Chapter X

Summary/Abstract: From the translator: Alfred North Whitehead, mainly known as a mathematician, a logician and a co-author of Principia Mathematica, is also the founder of the original doctrine called the philosophy of organism. In Whitehead's scientific heritage Process and Reality is the fullest and the most systematic presentation of the organic cosmology. It is designed as an essay in speculative philosophy. The speculative aspect or mood of thinking is not only accepted, but also considered to be essential for effecting the purposes of this type of reflection. It deals with the most ultimate, metaphysical problems, which are usually ignored by the philosophies concerned with defining and obeying high standards of methodological correctness. Whitehead's intention is to build the seheme of notions and categories, general enough to interpret every element of our experience. The translated chapter is pivotal in the whole of Process and Reality. It is an analysis of the process of becoming, made in systematic language, i.e., in terms of a previously built categoreal scheme. The basis for the analysis is the fundamental and all-embracing intuition of permanence and flux of things present in human experience. The systematic description of that ultimate and universal aspects of experience is the stem of metaphysics.

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