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From Hegel to Whitehead

One may be forgiven for having the impression that Whitehead is a sort of Melchizedek of twentieth-century philosophy-arriving on the scene to bless Abrahams and slay other warriors-without ancestry and any obvious philosophical lineage. This is partly so because much of this thought seems to be derived from, or initiated by, aesthetic and physical considerations rather than traditionally philosophical ones. But it will not suffice as a full explanation of influences on him. This paper is about Whitehead's "ancestry," which is much neglected by many of his commentators. Specifically, the purpose of this piece is to explore the relation of Alfred North Whitehead to Hegel and to that broad and amorphous movement known as Idealism. In an examination of Whitehead's