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Nature Alive.The book finishes with an epilogue titled “The Aim of Philosophy”. The book comprises 6 lectures delivered by Alfred North Whitehead at Wellesley College in Massachusetts and 2 lectures given at the University of Chicago.
#GENERALITIES AND PARTICULARS FREE#
Modes of Thought was published in 1968 by Free Press/Macmillan Publishing (first published 1938). This book’s wisdom provides nothing less than the intellectual sustenance that we all need to live the fullest life possible. “As we think, we live”, states Whitehead.
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I must admit there are few books that I have read more than twice, but Modes of Thought - Whitehead’s thought-provoking guide to penetrating the universe - is one of them. By ignoring the particulars, we blunt discovery and stifle possibilities.
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To the rush to homogenize - an attitude that inadequately attends to the particulars, And as our expertise begins to grow, we fall victim Instead, we tend to become cataloguers of “facts”, fitting our observations Few of us have been trained to develop an attitude of prioritizing the process Instead, we should first fight to collect as much fresh, firsthand experienceĪs possible. This means we should shrug off the tendency to start with systematized knowledge. Recognized as the Godfather of process philosophy, Whitehead instructs us to embrace process so we might skillfully interpret the permanence and navigate the flux of reality. To understand the whole, we must develop a method of thought - steeped in an awareness that our thought processes, the categories of language we use, can distort our interpretation of our encounters with the world. Moreover, the processes we seek to make sense of come at us as abstracted fragments described in our own words. Whitehead teaches that the world comes at usĪs processes and activities, not as things or events. Modes of Thought provides readers with an opportunity to think deeply about their own thinking - how we take the world. "We think in generalities, but we live in details”, wrote Alfred North Whitehead.