> The passage quoted owes more to Whitehead's reading of LJ
> Henderson's "The
> Fitness of the Environment" and discussions with JBS Haldane and
> William
> Bateson than W.'s reading [lack thereof actually] of Hegel and Marx
> and
> Husserl.
Thanks Ian. I'd thought myself it might have something to do with Plato, one of the precursors of Hegel, Marx, Husserl and Whitehead whose appropriation makes their ontological ideas part, as I said, of the same tradition. Glad to be corrected.
Ted