怀特海对传统形而上学思维方式的反思

Whitehead's Reflection on the Traditional Metaphysical Way of Thinking

怀特海生活在科学使人类文明进程发生巨大改变的时代。牛顿物理学的瓦解,爱因斯坦相对论的兴起,伯格森生命哲学的发展,这些因素都引起他重新思考哲学的目的。怀特海批判传统形而上学的抽象思维方式,要人们破除抽象思维回归现实世界;批判近代经验论和唯心论,并揭示出人类的认识可以主客合生,将世界聚集为一个新的存在;以"事件"理论为基础,用过程哲学对"一切价值进行重新估价"。尽管他的过程哲学有泛神论的气息,但他的思想激起我们重新审视人类存在的价值。

Whitehead lives in a time when science has made great changes in the course of human civilization. The collapse of Newton ' s physics, the rise of Einstein' s theory of relativity, the development of the philosophy of life philosophy, all caused him to reconsider the philosophy. Whitehead criticizes the abstract thinking mode of traditional metaphysics and wants people to break down abstract thinking and return to the real world. It criticizes the modern empiricism and idealism, and reveals that the human cognition can combine the subject and the object, and gather the world into a new existence. Based on the theory of "event", "all values are revalued" by the philosophy of process. Although his philosophy of process has the flavor of pantheism, his thought arouses us to re-examine the value of human existence.