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==Authors==

==Authors==

Paul Ashton and Claire Rafferty

Paul Ashton and Claire Rafferty

==Introduction==

==Introduction==

There are numerous investigations into the relationship between Whitehead and Hegel, and for good reason, as there are many parallels in their work. However, Hegel is not an isolated thinker that exists in a cultural vacuum, rather he is perhaps the last and most famous philosopher in the German romantic and idealistic tradition, and not surprisingly we believe these parallels are consistent across this movement as a whole. To be sure, the focus on Hegel in this area has in some ways obscured some of the true insights and the genuinely processual nature of philosophical thought in this revolutionary period as a whole. With this said, the goal of this paper is not a thoroughgoing examination of the similarity of positions of the two fields or the direct links between the two; our goal is the more modest one of merely showing how this unique period of philosophy after and including Kant responded to the modern problematic of dualism. Kant is especially important here as his philosophy is the doorway through which the spirit of the new mode of philosophical thinking has come whilst paradoxically representing the height of dichotomous thought.   

There are numerous investigations into the relationship between Whitehead and Hegel, and for good reason, as there are many parallels in their work. However, Hegel is not an isolated thinker that exists in a cultural vacuum, rather he is perhaps the last and most famous philosopher in the German romantic and idealistic tradition, and not surprisingly we believe these parallels are consistent across this movement as a whole. To be sure, the focus on Hegel in this area has in some ways obscured some of the true insights and the genuinely processual nature of philosophical thought in this revolutionary period as a whole. With this said, the goal of this paper is not a thoroughgoing examination of the similarity of positions of the two fields or the direct links between the two; our goal is the more modest one of merely showing how this unique period of philosophy after and including Kant responded to the modern problematic of dualism. Kant is especially important here as his philosophy is the doorway through which the spirit of the new mode of philosophical thinking has come whilst paradoxically representing the height of dichotomous thought.