Whitehead’s Project of Process Philosophy: A Renewed Criterion of Philosophical Approach

Process thinking is a long-standing philosophical tradition that emphases becoming and changes over a static being. It traces its origin through an ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus who emphasized the importance of change and flux as the ultimate reality. Process Philosophy really found it most fertile grounds and active development during the 20supth/sup Century North America with whitehead taking the lead, Charles Hartshorne and the others followed and continue this tradition. The aim of this study is to understand whitehead’s process philosophy as a renewed approach of philosophical criterion that have challenged the traditional philosophical approaches. It seeks to know, how can whitehead’s process philosophy offer a renewed criterion for philosophical inquiry, and what implications does it hold for contemporary philosophical debates? In order to attain our objectives, we will give an account of a comparative philosophical analysis. The paper emphasizes that, whitehead project of process philosophy is a protest against abstractions, bifurcation, dogmatism and philosophical language. Thus, giving philosophical thinking a new orientation and reinterpretation. we think that it is a renewed philosophy because some of his predecessors Emmanuel Kant have attempted it. That is to say, Whitehead ‘s project of process philosophy is to reconcile the conflicting views between the physical and the mental entities or better still, the rationalist and the empiricists which in turn to show that whitehead’s project of process philosophy is the continuation of Kant’s own project. Thus, development of a philosophical language. Actual entities or actual occasions, eternal objects and prehensions comes to being. we think that, Whitehead’s project of process philosophy as an interactive web of relationships aligns with the posthumanism focus, a current subject of contemporary philosophical debates.