Abstract

The mode of thinking in ethics has been transformed in modern times. Whitehead’s impact is decisive for this change. First, Whitehead’s philosophy, in later period, expresses a kind of expectation of constructing a kind of metaphysics and cosmological/ideological system rooted in aesthetic values, or in empirical values. Second, in a certain sense, Whitehead’s ‘holistic value metaphysics’ helped in establishing a new ethical discipline: ecological ethics.