The Place of Reason in Human Experience According to A.N. Whitehead
Abstract
During the course of the adventure from which this e ssay forms an abstract, the question arose as to why a student
of physical science such as I should devote such an important
part of his studies as the senior individualized project
is, intended to be, to the study of a philosopher such
as Alfred North Whitehead. When the question was first
broached, I was unprepared to answer it in any more than
an intuitive way. Briefly stated, my feelings were that
among the purposes of a liberal education, an important one
is the broadening of perspectives of life and of the universe, and that, though physics provides one important perspective,
there are, to paraphrase Whitehead, "more ideas in heaven
and on earth than were thought of ..... " within its
bounds. T am now prepared to defend my decision more specifically, if not more convincingly.