Frasi di Alfred North Whitehead
Alfred North Whitehead
Data di nascita: 15. Febbraio 1861
Data di morte: 30. Dicembre 1947
Alfred North Whitehead è stato un filosofo e matematico britannico.
Si occupò di logica, matematica, epistemologia, teologia e metafisica. Insieme a Bertrand Russell fu autore dei tre volumi di cui si compongono i Principia Mathematica.
In La scienza e il mondo moderno , Processo e realtà e Avventure di idee , Whitehead tentò una mediazione tra l'istanza filosofica e la visione scientifica del mondo e formulò una metafisica organicistica, basata sulle idee di Leibniz e di Bergson.
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Frasi Alfred North Whitehead
„Consciousness is only the last and greatest of such elements by which the selective character of the individual obscures the external totality from which it originates and which it embodies.“
— Alfred North Whitehead
Context: Philosophy is the self-correction by consciousness of its own initial excess of subjectivity. Each actual occasion contributes to the circumstances of its origin additional formative elements deepening its own peculiar individuality. Consciousness is only the last and greatest of such elements by which the selective character of the individual obscures the external totality from which it originates and which it embodies. An actual individual, of such higher grade, has truck with the totality of things by reason of its sheer actuality; but it has attained its individual depth of being by a selective emphasis limited to its own purposes. The task of philosophy is to recover the totality obscured by the selection.
Pt. I, ch. 1, sec. 6.
„More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook.“
— Alfred North Whitehead
Context: More and more it is becoming evident that what the West can most readily give to the East is its science and its scientific outlook. This is transferable from country to country, and from race to race, wherever there is a rational society.
Ch. 1: "The Origins of Modern Science"
„It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.“
— Alfred North Whitehead
Context: Creativity is the universal of universals characterizing ultimate matter of fact. It is that ultimate principle by which the many, which are the universe disjunctively, become the one actual occasion, which is the universe conjunctively. It lies in the nature of things that the many enter into complex unity.
Pt. I, ch. 2, sec. 2.
