The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

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Topic

Western philosophy Philosophy Plato

Speaker

Alfred North Whitehead

Source

Process and Reality

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Mathematician Philosopher

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. "Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology." Gifford Lecture. 1927–1928, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Current Citation

Whitehead, Alfred North. Process and Reality. Simon and Schuster, 2010, pt. 2, ch. 1, sec. 1.

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A tough but nervous, tenacious but restless race; materially ambitious, yet prone to introspection, and subject to waves of religious emotion... A race whose typical member is eternally torn between a passion for righteousness and a desire to get on in the world.

Samuel Eliot Morison

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Author

Samuel Eliot Morison
Source
Maritime History of Massachusetts
Genre
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Language
English
Time
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Citation

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921, ch. 2.