因果关系的存在论转向——从休谟到怀特海

休谟诉诸一种自然发生学的处理方式来为因果关系的合理性辩护,这实质上是意识到了认识论话语体系之外存在的无限性,但是这种原因与结果之间的灵动性与开放性在康德的客观先验范畴体系中遭到窒息。怀特海在过程存在论的视域之中,赋予原因与结果一种内在相关性,从而将因果关系从抽象的认知层面还原到具体的"存在之流"。

Change in Direction of Ontology of Causal Relationship——From Hume to Whitehead

Hume tried to vindicate the rationality of causal relationship by the processing mode of natural genetics,actually,he felt the infinity of Being outside word system of epistemology,however,the vitality and openness between cause and result were suffocated in the Kante's objective priori category system.Whitehead formulated that on the horizon of process ontology there existed internal relevancy between cause and result,so he restored the causal relationship from abstract cognitive aspect to concrete "stream of Being".