Martin Heidegger s "Being and Time" can be broadly termed a transcendental inquiry into the structures that make human experience possible. Such an inquiry reveals the conditions that render human experience intelligible. Using "Being and Time" as a model, I attempt to show that Alfred North Whitehead s "Process and Reality" not only aligns with "Being and Time" in opposing many elements of traditional Western philosophy but also exhibits a similar transcendental inquiry.
With this reading, "Process and Reality" contains concepts much like Being-in-the-world, ecstatic temporality, and...