written by Mathematician and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, Modes of Thought compiles his lectures on topics such as Importance, Expression, Understanding, and Perspective. Published in 1938, after his landmark text “Process and Reality” in 1929, Modes of Thought is a vast discussion on the basis of thought and some of the reasoning behind our constructions of reality and fact.
Contents: I. Creative Impulse
- I. Importance
- II. Expression
- III. Understanding
II. Activity
- IV. Perspective
- V. Forms of Process
- VI. Civilized Universe III. Nature and Life
- VII. Nature Lifeless
- VIII. Nature Alive IV. Epilogue
- IX. The Aim of Philosophy
- Index
Notes:
There are some standout points which string through each lecture, included below: Averages(homogeneity) = non-living, It is in difference and heterogeneity which there is life.