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• 1 Between 1948 and 1987, Portuguese editors published some of Withehead’s works: a translation of An • 2 The title of the dissertation is Ser, Devir e Perecer A Criatividade na Filosofia de Whitehead. Free t-racks 3 keygen free download - and torrent 2016. 1Until Process and Reality – An Essay in Cosmology (1929) by Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) was translated into Portuguese, four other works had been previously translated, proving Portuguese people had a persistent interest in the thought of a philosopher who is probably the last and most important speculative thinker of the 20th century. Yet, Processo e Realidade – Ensaio de Cosmologia hopefully stands as a turning point in Whiteheadian reception in Portugal; on the hand, it was published by the Centre for Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, and on the other, the translator, Maria Teresa Teixeira, got her PhD with a dissertation on Whitehead. A scholarly context of this kind meets the challenge of the endeavour, since Process and Reality is indeed from various angles a unique work.

Whitehead, (1985), Process and Reality, New York, The Free Press, XXXI, 413 pages. 2This work has often and rightly been singled out for its extraordinary speculative nature, which went strongly against the mainstream when it came out, at a time when speculative proposals received the scathing criticism. But what is even more significant for the task of translation is the fact that not only were there two original editions in 1929, one in the USA (Macmillan) and the other in England (Cambridge), but once confronted and collated, there are over three hundred points of divergence. Together, with the problems posited by the chapter structure and the general architectural frame of the work, not to mention Whitehead’s idiosyncratic terminology, it is understandable how these circumstances can partly account for the adverse reception in the philosophical world ranging from misinterpretation to harsh criticism. Finally, in 1978, David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne re-edited Process and Reality; by means of a re-arrangement of the original text, supplemented by twenty-two pages of corrections and notes to the two 1929 editions, they provided the scientific community with a trustworthy research tool, which was used as source text for the present translation. As a result, fifty years after the first editions, readers and scholars were able to proceed with their task of reading the work imbued with the feeling that the text is free of slips and errors and faithful to Whitehead’s thought.

This situation allowed for the reliable building up of different approaches to this work. The Portuguese translation, Processo e Realidade, naturally includes the analytical index of the 1978 edition, adding the page number of the first 1929 editions to the page number of the 1978 edition, thus making the reader straightforwardly aware of the complexity of the tasks involved in the re-edition of the work and also in the translation, as well as raising the reader’s alertness to the successive variations, developments and uses of concepts along the work.

There are four parts to this text: 'Sociological,' 'Cosmological,' 'Philosophical,' and 'Civilization.' The first part is a history of how ideas, especially moral ideas, have influenced the progress of civilization. Whitehead is by training mathematician and by nature a philosopher, not a historian. As a consequence, he covers a great deal of historical ground at a high level of generality which, in Whitehead's case, I consider a virtue. He has a beautiful, long-term perspective; his account of the transition from a world in which slavery was taken for granted to one in which it is no longer legitimate, and the role that the ideas of Platonism and Christianity played in that 2500 year transition, makes me quite optimistic about the long-term possibility of humane progress in the world. I describe the first section in depth because it is among the more accessible pieces of Whitehead's writing. The remainder of the book calls upon his unique metaphysical perspective to some extent, and is thus more of a struggle for the casual reader.