Process Philosophy

Kaj U. Koskinen () and Rainer Breite
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Kaj U. Koskinen: Tampere University
Rainer Breite: Tampere University

Chapter Chapter 3 in Uninterrupted Knowledge Creation, 2020, pp 13-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The progenitor of this metaphysical tradition was Heracleitus. For him, reality is not a constellation of things at all but one of processes. The fundamental ‘stuff’ of the world is not material substance but volatile flux, namely ‘fire’, and all things are versions thereof. Process is fundamental: the river is not an object but a continuing of flow; the sun is not a thing but an enduring fire. Everything is a matter of process, of activity, of change. It is not stable things but fundamental forces and the varied and fluctuating activities that they manifest that constitute the world (e.g. Rescher 2000).

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-57303-4_3

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