Prologue.

Whitehead (1861-1947) is an English philosopher. Reason is an impulse toward empty concreteness. That impulse is not empty. It is a fundamental force that can give birth to something. This impulse of mind is appetition. It is an inherent agent of transcendental goals. Therefore, the empty concreteness is embodied as material enjoyment.
Whitehead's reason cannot leave appetition. Jeong Yi-cheon of the Northern Song Dynasty, who developed Neo-Confucianism, also believes that the main body cannot leave the phenomenon. Whitehead advocates Plato, saying that all of the Western philosophy is just a footnote to Plato's philosophy. However, he overcomes Plato by creating his own organic philosophy. Nietzsche, Marx, and Freud are also Ubermensch against the Platonic system. Plato's original sin is his ideology that isolates humans into the world and alienates humans for 2000 years. Idea corresponds to all phenomena in a monolithic and organic manner. Whitehead is a Copernican Ubermensch. The Function of Reason is a lecture at Princeton University in 1929. This book is an easy condensed form of a long and difficult text in a summary format.

Prologue.
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1. The business of philosophers? (1) The Original Text.
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2. The pairs of concepts of the argument of reason. (1) The Original Text.
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3. The fallacy of evolutionists. (1) The Original Text.
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4. The survival of deficient organisms. (1) The Original Text.
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5. How to see different species of living things. (1) The Original Text.
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6. The limitation of evolution. (1) The Original Text.
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7. The upward trend of evolution. (1) The Original Text.
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8. A growth of the converse relation. (1) The Original Text.
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9. The survival of mankind. (1) The Original Text.
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10. The primary function of reason. (1) The Original Text.
(2) The business of philosophers? What I have read is like this.
11. To discuss reason. (1) The Original Text.
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12. The reasoning method. (1) The Original Text.
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13. Plato's reason and Ulysses’ reason. (1) The Original Text.
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14. Physiologist's fault. (1) The Original Text.
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15. What the Reason of Plato and Ulysses pursues. (1) The Original Text.
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16. The bones of companions sown by Ulysses. (1) The Original Text.
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17. For these two propositions to be consistent. (1) The Original Text.
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18. A baseless fiction. (1) The Original Text.
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19. What the battleship Utah symbolizes. (1) The Original Text.
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20. Ridiculous idea. (1) The Original Text.
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21. The way life evolves. (1) The Original Text.
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22. The dogma of physiology. (1) The Original Text.
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23. Why did the physiologist himself become an interesting subject for study? (1) The Original Text.
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24. What Physiology and the Clergy Have in Common. (1) The Original Text.
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25. The dogmatic methodology. (1) The Original Text.
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26. The role of methodology. (1) The Original Text.
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27. The last alternatives of methodology. (1) The Original Text.
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28. The last alternatives of appropriate methodology. (1) The Original Text.
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29. The last alternatives of inappropriate methodology. (1) The Original Text.
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30. Three Ways to Get Stability. (1) The Original Text.
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31. The flash. (1) The Original Text.
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32. Transient becoming blind. (1) The Original Text.
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33. Fatigue accumulation and fatigue removal. (1) The Original Text.
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34. The Rhythm of life. (1) The Original Text.
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35. The lower level of primitive reason. (1) The Original Text.
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36. What fatigue means. (1) The Original Text.
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37. The physical cosmic subject. (1) The Original Text.
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38. A general counter-agency in the universe. (1) The Original Text.
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39. Final causation. (1) The Original Text.
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40. The pragmatic doctrine. (1) The Original Text.
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41. Generalization of dogmatic methodologies. (1) The Original Text.
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42. A satisfactory cosmology. (1) The Original Text.
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43. The deepest unsolved mystery. (1) The Original Text.
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44. The fallacy of Bergson and Descartes. (1) The Original Text.
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45. The organic doctrine. (1) The Original Text.
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46. The Platonic forms. (1) The Original Text.
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47. The appetition of appetitions. (1) The Original Text.
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48. Slavish conformity. (1) The Original Text.
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49. The appearance of reason. (1) The Original Text.
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50. The legend of Ulysses. (1) The Original Text.
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51. Abstract theoretical reason. (1) The Original Text.
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52. Solomon’s dream. (1) The Original Text.
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53. The history of the practical Reason. (1) The Original Text.
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54. The history of the speculative Reason. (1) The Original Text.
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55. The modern history of the human race. (1) The Original Text.
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56. The decline of modern music. (1) The Original Text.
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57. Roman Empire Science and Technology. (1) The Original Text.
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58. What a clergyman and a scientist have in common. (1) The Original Text.
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59. Limitations of Scholastic Philosophy. (1) The Original Text.
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60. What Scholastic Philosophy left behind. (1) The Original Text.
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61. The Secret Discovered by the Renaissance. (1) The Original Text.
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62. Renaissance people. (1) The Original Text.
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63. The foundations of the modern sciences. (1) The Original Text.
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64. The interplay between science and technical procedure. (1) The Original Text.
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65. The antagonism between science and metaphysics. (1) The Original Text.
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66. Mathematics and theology. (1) The Original Text.
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67. The fallacy of Newton. (1) The Original Text.
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68. Newton’s boast. (1) The Original Text.
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69. The scope of application of Newtonian mechanics. (1) The Original Text.
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70. Dogmatic science. (1) The Original Text.
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71. The quest of science. (1) The Original Text.
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72. A synchronic description of mere observations. (1) The Original Text.
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73. Diachronic metaphysics. (1) The Original Text.
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74. The design of radio apparatus. (1) The Original Text.
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75. Mathematical formula for radio. (1) The Original Text.
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76. A magical mathematical formula. (1) The Original Text.
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77. Inductive generalizations. (1) The Original Text.
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78. Blind habits of scientific thought. (1) The Original Text.
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79. The Critique of Pure Reason. (1) The Original Text.
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80. The obscurantist attitude of science. (1) The Original Text.
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81. Lights rising from the source of things. (1) The Original Text.
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82. The infinity of things. (1) The Original Text.
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83. The incredible secrets of theoretical reason. (1) The Original Text.
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84. Induction and deduction. (1) The Original Text.
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85. The analysis of the proposition. (1) The Original Text.
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86. A scheme of ideas. (1) The Original Text.
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87. Verification of a scientific scheme. (1) The Original Text.
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88. Combining rational a priori and phenomenal experience. (1) The Original Text.
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89. The dream of Solomon. (1) The Original Text.
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90. The comparative stagnation of Asiatic civilization. (1) The Original Text.
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91. Abstract morphology. (1) The Original Text.
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92. Limitations of Political Economy. (1) The Original Text.
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93. Mathematical physics. (1) The Original Text.
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94. The cosmological scheme. (1) The Original Text.
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95. Some evidence widespread in experience. (1) The Original Text.
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96. The clarity and the vagueness. (1) The Original Text.
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97. The basis of all authority. (1) The Original Text.
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98. The supreme authority. (1) The Original Text.
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99. Stopping the upward impulse. (1) The Original Text.
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100. The object of discipline. (1) The Original Text.
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101. The Greek way of thought. (1) The Original Text.
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102. The characteristics of Plato's and Aristotle's speculation. (1) The Original Text.
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103. How speculative Reason works. (1) The Original Text.
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104. The discordance over moral codes. (1) The Original Text.
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105. The novel speculation. (1) The Original Text.
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106. Ideas of clarity and generality. (1) The Original Text.
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107. The entity of cosmology. (1) The Original Text.
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108. In nature some tendency upwards. (1) The Original Text.
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109. Counter-tendency. (1) The Original Text.
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