On Tao About Becoming Of Organism

At present, the voice of "End of Metaphysics" has been challenged widely, therefore,a new question becomes a theme of Philosophical studies: Where should philosophy go?The premise of this question has showed that philosophy can no longer rely on the way ofsimly deconstruction. Philosophy should be constructive, and formally appealing,especially should engage in laying foundation for human culture and also human existence.In this way, it should be some heir of the spirit of traditional philosophy. This is notsuggesting that philosophy should be continuing the old way, which ought to realize theself-transcendence in the new existential situation. The transcendence is not to cut offfrom tradition thoroughly, but to resurrect on the traditional foundation. Fortunately,Whitehead took upon consciously the task of self-transcendence of philosophy as "saver"in addition to his criticizing of the traditional philosophy, while post-Hegel westernphilosophy was going through a self-deconstruction.The premise of saving philosophy is to treat its all kinds of inherent illness, and to letits active and rational element grow naturally. As most of post-modernists, Whiteheadattributed current cultural crisis to all kinds of popular habits of thought in traditionalphilosophy, and proposed creatively a new philosophy paradigm: organism philosophy."Organism" means a kind of dynamic, spiritual being. There is a kind of unsophisticated,primordial organism-complex. It is not only expressed in worldview, but also in field ofthought. Unfortunately, after Aristotle's studying to "substance", western philosophy hadbeen ruled by substantialism, the organism thought was suppressed and covered, therefore,current task of philosophy is to disclose the world of organism which is not a outer worldopposites to human, but a world of experience including human themselves. So, on theone hand, Whitehead criticized "excess of subjectivity" originated from epistemology ofmodern philosophy, and required to return to pre-Socrates', i.e. the inquiry into the cosmic. On the other hand, he regarded the experience-being with inherent aims, actual entity, asthe ultimate cell of the cosmic. Actual entity is not only objective unit of Cosmic, but alsoconcrete subjective experience as a process of becoming. Once a description of thisprocess of becoming is given, a creative, becoming universe can be exhibited, in whichfact is compatible with value. In another words, whitehead was just telling a story aboutthe creating of the cosmic from a pure objective position, and in this story, Whitehead, asthe subject of the teller of story, is absent. For just this reason, Whitehead's organismphilosophy can escape the charge of subject centralism and be regard as a non-subjective"Heavenly Order".Modern philosophy has always esteemed subject as the self-evident origin, however,this subject itself is rootless: there is a whole objective occasion of cosmic in back of thepresent subject. So, Whitehead required a reversal to Kant's "Copernican Revolution", i.e.adopt the thinking mode of from object to subject. The relation between subjection andobjection is not cognitive, but becoming from objection to subjection. In the concertstream of process, an existentialist unity of subject and object can be realized: every actualentity as subjective experience must contain the whole objective cosmic as stuff ofexperience in its process of becoming. Modern philosophy sets out from subject, it is nomore than a kind of deduction of subject itself. Whitehead excavated the very foundationon which subject can growth through the description of the becoming of the cosmic. Inthis way, the heartless becoming of cosmic exhibited by Whitehead provided an emotionalapocalypse for human existence: the authentic existence is to exist as organism, toself-realize with adventure and innovation, but not separate from outer world which weare inhabited in.Set out form modern western existence philosophy especially Heidegger'sfundamental ontology, it is helpful to unclose the value of existentialism of Whitehead'sphilosophy. The latter's description of the becoming of "Dasein" shares an insight with Whitehead. In addition, both Marx's examination to social organism and the HeavenlyOrder of Taoism are strengthened in Whitehead's organism philosophy, therefore, currentChinese thought circumstance provides proper soil for growth of Whitehead's organismphilosophy. However, along with the diversifying and speedy advance of Chineseintellectual vision, Chinese forfeited basic cultural Self-identification when confrontingwith tumultuous resource of culture. Therefore, it is essential to unify all kinds of resourceof culture at the anchor point of Whitehead's organism philosophy, and to construct"organism existentialism" according to the philosophical appeal to lay a foundation forexistence.