Université de Rouen Normandie

The Neo-Berkeleyan Whitehead

Revue roumaine de philosophie December 1, 2025 Université de Rouen Normandie, Bogdan Rusu

The thesis of this paper is that, in his first metaphysical work, Whitehead took Berkeley as his model. He stopped perceiving him as a subjective idealist and he leaned to consider him an objective/absolute idealist. He became appreciative of some positive contributions of the Irish philosopher. While continuing to appreciate Berkeley’s critique of the seventeenth century scheme of ideas,...