As a thinker with worldwide and cross-century influence, Alfred, a British thinker? 6? 1 north? 6? Alfred north whitehead (1861-1947) has made many contributions. The sagacity, profundity, extensiveness, originality, constructiveness and compatibility of his process thought have been explained in many fields (such as philosophy, science and religion), showing its great strength and vitality day by day and having a great and far-reaching impact on the development of human civilization. ....

Whitehead's philosophy (also known as process philosophy or organism philosophy) is profound. It is obviously not an easy task to comprehensively summarize Whitehead's philosophy, and this is not the main purpose of this paper; However, from the perspective of education, we can at least briefly summarize it as the following propositions to help us understand his educational philosophy.

First of all, everything is changing. In Whitehead's view, the process is fundamental, and what becomes reality is the process. This process inherits the past, bases itself on the present and faces the future. He opposed the mechanistic view that "nature (organism) is dead" and thought that "nature is alive". Nature is meaningful only if it is endowed with life, generation, purpose, creation and enjoyment. Whitehead's understanding of process includes many aspects, both internal and external; Both subjective and objective; There are both macro and micro; But all these aspects are unified and are different aspects of a process. "The concept of" change "is a description of the adventure of the evolving universe." (Process and Reality, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1929, p. 92)

Second, everything is intrinsically linked. The world is an organic whole, and the actual entity "is the ultimate realistic thing that the world constitutes." (ibid., page 27) "organism" and "process" are inseparable, and they are doubly related: the isomorphism of real things is an organism, but it is not a static organism, but an imperfect state in the process of generation. ..... In this sense, the organism is a connection. Secondly, each reality itself can only be described as the process of an organism, and ... is the realistic basis for its subsequent stage to be perfected. "(ibid., p. 327) Therefore, Whitehead opposes the entity thinking mode in modern philosophy, that is, a mechanistic mode of reality, binary opposition (such as the so-called binary division of subject/object, spirit/matter, God/world, concept/entity), and a separated and rigid understanding of the world.

Third, processes and organisms are adventurous and creative. Whitehead believes that no matter the evolution of the universe or the progress of civilization, there must be adventure. "Pure conservative forces conflict with the nature of the universe." (Adventure of Ideas, new york, Free Press, 1967, p. 354) In other words, both processes and organisms must be adventurous and creative. Whitehead's adventure mainly refers to the adventure of ideas, which is the positive influence of some advanced ideas on accelerating human civilization. "It is the pursuit of new perfection." (ibid., p. 332). He stressed: "Without adventure, civilization will inevitably decline." (ibid., p. 360). Whitehead's creation belongs to what he calls the "ultimate category" (it expresses the general principles presupposed by process philosophy or organism philosophy), which plays a vital role in understanding process and organism. Creation represents the relationship between "many" and "one". In Whitehead's view, all events involve the realization of countless possibilities. In front of us, when we integrate the past of the universe and the separated heteropoly into a new and future unity, that is, when we integrate the possibilities previously expressed as subjective forms into the objective content of an experience, we will have a sense of novelty, which enriches the experience and enhances the enjoyment of it. This new quality is that the possibility that has not been realized in the past is creation. Therefore, creativity is closely related to real potential. "Creativity is the realization of potential." (ibid., p. 230)

Fourth, the process and body are enjoyable and artistic. Whitehead often uses the word "enjoyment" which is more enlightening than "process". Whitehead believes that all units of the process (whether on the human level or the electronic level) are characterized by enjoyment and have intrinsic value. What becomes a reality is enjoyment, and no enjoyment is a sign of pure object. At the same time, enjoyment is also a rich meaning matrix with broader significance. "It is the self-enjoyment of one of various beings, and it is the self-enjoyment based on the existence of various components." (Process and Reality, page 220) The process of enjoyment is also an aesthetic process, so enjoyment, like truth, beauty, adventure, art and peace, is also an indispensable factor of civilization.

Whitehead is a postmodern thinker, although he has never directly used the word "postmodern". Moreover, unlike some deconstructive postmodernists such as Foucault and Derrida, whose characteristics are "destruction", "dissolution" and "negation", Whitehead's postmodernism is a constructive postmodernism. Its relationship with modernity is contradictory rather than etheric, that is, its criticism of modernity is dialectical sublation rather than total denial, and it only opposes the hegemony of modernity rather than rejecting the achievements of modernity.