Process and reality : an essay in cosmology : Gifford lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh during the session 1927-28

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page ABOUT THE AUTHOR contents FOREWORDby Max Lucado ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction I WHAT ME insensitive IT CAN BE CURED Chapter 1 STREET LEVEL messiahOF LOVERS AND USERS Chapter 2 THE WINE OF KINDNESSHELPING A HOST OFF THE HOOK Chapter 3 INSIDERS AND outsidersABOUT TALKING TO WHO IS LISTENING Chapter 4 A TALE OF two citiesSPEAKING THE RIGHT LANGUAGE Chapter 5 THE ABANDONED Water jarSTIRRING SLUMBERING HOPE Chapter 6 PLACES IN THE heartLOOKING BENEATH LIFE'S SURFACE Chapter 7 KICKING THE habitLIFEGUARDING AT THE PITY POOL Chapter 8 DO YOU WANT TO get well FROM PATRONIZING TO PERSONIZINGChapter 9 DIFFERENT StrokesWHEN ONE SIZE WON'T FIT ALL Chapter 10 THE JESUS Style FINDING POWER WHERE YOU LEAST EXPECT IT Chapter 11 RESTORING personhoodBALANCING LAW AND LOVE Chapter 12 REPAIRING brokennessWHEN HEAVEN'S FINGER TOUCHES HUMAN EARTHINESS Chapter 13 BEWARE OF pigeonholesOF LABELS AND LIBELS EPILOGUE NOTES Process and Reality, Whitehead's magnum opus, is one of the major philosophical works of the modern world, and an extensive body of secondary literature has developed around it. Yet surely no significant philosophical book has appeared in the last two centuries in nearly so deplorable a condition as has this one, with its many hundreds of errors and with over three hundred discrepancies between the American (Macmillan) and the English (Cambridge) editions, which appeared in different formats with divergent paginations. The work itself is highly technical and far from easy to understand, and in many passages the errors in those editions were such as to compound the difficulties. The need for a corrected edition has been keenly felt for many decades One of the major philosophical texts of the 20th century, Process and Reality is based on Alfred North Whitehead's influential lectures that he delivered at the University of Edinburgh in the 1920s on process philosophy. Whitehead's master work in philsophy, Process and Reality propounds a system of speculative philosophy, known as process philosophy, in which the various elements of reality into a consistent relation to each other. It is also an exploration of some of the preeminent thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Newton, Locke, and Kant. The ultimate edition of Whitehead's magnum opus, Process and Reality is a standard reference for scholars of all backgrounds. Max Lucado says of this book: "Lynn Anderson has some words for your heart. He will do more than help you deal with people — he will help you love people. His model? The source of love Himself: Jesus of Nazareth." For Jesus, people are number one. For authentic followers of Jesus, people become top priority as well. Based on Jesus' "creative encounters" with the people he met throughout the Gospel of John, this powerful book will teach you how to treat each individual you meet with the creativity and love exhibited by the Master. Walk through the days of Jesus' life and witness heaven reaching down to humanity, Immanuel among the earthlings, the Christ amidst the commoners; Jesus touch people .

Based on the Gifford Lectures which Whitehead delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1927-8. Process and Reality presents a system of speculative philosophy which is based on a categorical scheme of investigation designed to explain how concrete aspects of human experience can provide a foundation for our understanding of reality. It also investigates how reality can be defined as a process of becoming.

THIS course of lectures is designed as an essay in Speculative Philosphy.