The Logical Process Of Process Philosophy: From Darwin To Whitehead

The logical process of process philosophy is the development of process philosophy which from potential to developed. In this development, under the necessary requirements of philosophy internal logic, process philosophic thought overcomes its own contradictions and develops into a philosophy theory system which is coherent, logical, necessary. The rational principles of process philosophy which have logical necessity are the speculative basis of this development. The rational principles of process philosophy become the internal logic of process philosophy and guide the logical process of process philosophy in the endeavor of process philosophy to interpret the experience of nature.The logical process of process philosophy begins with the philosophical contains of Darwin's biological theory of evolution. As the beginning of the logical process of process philosophy, Darwin's biological theory of evolution is the inevitable basis that is resulted from researching the logical necessity of the rational principles of process philosophy. Darwin's biological theory of evolution prepares many real empirical materials for process philosophy and also primarily contains the rational principles of process philosophy. However, the thought of mechanical materialism in Darwin's biological theory of evolution is contradictory to the principle of organic. As the internal contradiction of the logical process of process philosophy, it is needed to be overcome in the following development.In the view of the internal logic of process philosophy, creative evolution and emergent evolution overcome the internal contradiction between Darwin's biological theory of evolution and the rational principles of process philosophy in different degrees. However, there are still some contradictions which are not overcome.Finally, process philosophy achieves its coherent in Whitehead's process philosophy. Based on the previous researching results, Whitehead's philosophy overcomes the internal contradictions and forms a coherent, logical, necessary system of process philosophy. Whitehead's process philosophy reaches the unity of the rational principles of process philosophy,and integrates these principles with interpretations about nature.