Urdu · proper noun · Mind & Knowledge
Whitehead
व्हाइटहेड
said WHITE-hed
also written: whitehead, alfred north whitehead, vhaithed
Meaning
Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), British philosopher of process and organism; Iqbal drew on his view of nature as dynamic event in the Reconstruction to argue for a living, creative universe.
Related words
URDU
Reconstruction
Iqbal's 'The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam' (1930), his major prose work in English engaging Bergson, Einstein, Whitehead and modern science to rethink Islamic philosophy.
URDU
Bergson
Henri Bergson (1859-1941), French philosopher of intuition, duration (durée) and creative evolution (élan vital); Iqbal drew on his dynamic view of time and life in his Reconstruction lectures.
ARABIC
Zaman-o-makan
Time and space.