Hegel ve Whitehead'de süreç düşüncesi: Yaşam ve canlılık

The purpose of this thesis is to clarify the thought of process in Hegel and Whitehead in the context of life and vitality. The concept of life has a special place for both Hegel and Whitehead. While for Whitehead, the situation of life in nature is the capital problem of philosophy and science, the concept of life serves as an analogy for Hegel's own philosophical system, since it offers a model for thinking about development in general. The center of this study is the difficulty in unifying spirit and nature, in even more general terms, objective world and subjectivity. In this regard, this thesis will also focus on mechanism, dialectical logic, the mind-body problem and on what can be thought. The mind-body problem is actually an instance of the more general problem of "life-matter" which is related to whether biology can be completely reduced to physics without loss. Thus, this study will seek an answer to the question of what the vitality, life and organism are with regard to their processes of becoming or occurrence.