Adventures of Ideas

ISBN-13: 9780029351703 / Angielski / Miękka / 1967 / 320 str.

Alfred North Whitehead

Opis

The title of this book, Adventures of Ideas, bears two meanings, both applicable to the subject-matter. One meaning is the effect of certain ideas in promoting the slow drift of mankind towards civilization. This is the Adventure of Ideas in the history of mankind. The other meaning is the author's adventure in framing a speculative scheme of ideas which shall be explanatory of the historical adventure.