Abstract

Owing both to the significance of its speculative achievements and to the originality of its structure and finalities, this arduous, complex, and deep treatise stands out within the extensive literature pertaining to the epistemological and ontological doctrines of Hegel and Whitehead. Rather than as a traditional historical/critical essay, or a comparative one, dedicated to the work of these two eminent thinkers, it presents itself as an attempt at a “reconstruction of method for first philosophy”. Its author intends to draw upon the most valid and tenable methodological criteria worked out by each of the two philosophers, in turn, and, after submitting these to a critical examination and revision, to outline something like the indispensable “prolegomena” to a metaphysics. In accordance with the present requirement of our cultural context, however, this is not to be “dogmatic” but “critical”.