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The Subject in Whitehead's Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

George Gentry*
Affiliation:
The University of Texas

Extract

The most direct manner of formulating the objective of this paper is to consider some passages in which Whitehead states the conception of the “subject” espoused by the organic philosophy.

“The subjectivist principle is that the whole universe consists of elements disclosed in the analysis of the experiences of subjects.” “The reformed subjectivist principle adopted by the philosophy of organism ...” is “... that apart from the experiences of subjects there is nothing, nothing, nothing, bare nothingness.”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1944

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References

1 Whitehead, Alfred North, Process and Reality, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1929. pp. 252–253.

2 Ibid., pp. 252–254.

3 Ibid., pp. 135–136.

4 Ibid., p. 339.

5 Ibid., p. 228.

6 Ibid., pp. 135–136, 339.

7 Ibid., p. 339.

8 Ibid., p. 353.

9 Ibid., pp. 354–355.