‘Feeling’ and Metaphysics in Whitehead

Abstract

For someone who knows the history of Western metaphysics, it is entirely unexpected to hear that Whitehead’s metaphysics contains as one of its fundamental pieces the concept of ‘feeling.’ This could work if one envisages a metaphysics of the human being but not metaphysics in general. In my paper, I show what sinuous ways Western metaphysics had to follow so that ‘feeling' could be postulated as a universal feature of all entities in the universe and why ‘feeling’ is a sine qua non condition in conceptualizing the ‘actual occasion.’