Alfred North Whitehead (Whitehead, Alfred North | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) was one of the most brilliant minds of his age. In Adventures of Ideas (1933) he offers the most accessible statement of his conception of ‘process philosophy’ (Process Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)).
In a nutshell this approach challenges over 2000 years of philosophical assumption. It rejects those philosophies that value static notions of being over dynamic notions of becoming. It emphasizes relatedness above static ‘things’.
Process philosophy argues that “there is urgency in coming to see the world as a web of interrelated processes of which are integral parts, so that all of our choices and actions have consequences for the world around us.” For this reason, one of the most promising applications of Whitehead’s thought in recent years has been in the area of ecological civilization and environmental ethics. I read this book in 1981 and it made a deep impression. It is a classic worthy of your attention.
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320 pages in Free Press paperback edition.
First published 1933
ISBN 978-0029351703
Alfred North Whitehead