Abstract

The topic of the paper is the ontology of the future from the process philosophical point of view. The author takes up an attitude to the claim of the Hegelians that Hegel’s ontology will be the ontology of the future and argues that this can be accepted only to the extent to which Hegel’s ontology is a kind of process ontology. The author’s thesis is that process ontology will be the ontology of the future. Whitehead has developed a more contemporary form of process ontology than Hegel’s one. Whitehead’s process ontology is not dialectic and his scheme of development relying on ‘concrescence’ and ‘transition’ differs from Hegel’s triad of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis corresponding to a greater extent to contemporary science. There are also other attempts after Whitehead to develop process ontology that represents further steps in the generalization of processes. The author’s own expectation is that in the nearest future process ontology will arrive at the elaboration of the idea of variable categories. That stage of development will synthesize Hegel’s idea of changing categories with Whitehead’s process ontology and the other contemporary forms of process ontology. Namely this synthesis will be the ontology of the future.