Whitehead reviewed the philosophy of the earliest known thinkers and then proceeded through the history of philosophy to find a line of understanding that would be consistent our current knowledge of reality. Heraclitus' idea that "everything flows" is seen as a key starting point of this process. Whitehead also recast the established foundations of philosophy (the works of Aristotle and Plato), to reinterpret these writings in terms of the cosmos (the world as we understand it) they reveal. In doing so, Whitehead takes a new path to the present yet builds on the wisdom and insight of these great thinkers.
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