Philosopher
Michel Weber
Overview
Michel Weber (born 1963) is a Belgian philosopher. He is best known as an interpreter and advocate of the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, and has come to prominence as the architect and organizer of an overlapping array of international scholarly societies and publication projects devoted to Whitehead and the global relevance of process philosophy.
Weber criticizes contemporary academic philosophy for losing touch with its early Greek roots. Philosophy has a practical mission (rooted in Socratic discourse) to restore personal and social well-being, but it cannot do this, he argues, if it renounces its traditional metaphysical obligation (rooted in pre-Socratic speculation) to understand the cosmos. Weber believes that process philosophy is uniquely qualified to fulfill this double function in the post-modern world.
Weber was educated in Belgium and the United States. The primary languages of his publications are English and French.
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Philosophers who discussed Michel Weber
- Jean Wahl
- Henri Bergson
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Hans Jonas
- Charles Hartshorne
- Aldous Huxley
- Timothy Sprigge
Ideas Michel Weber discusses
- Socratic questioning
- Great Britain
- Henri Bergson
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Process and Reality
- John B. Cobb
- Ancient Greek philosophy
- David Ray Griffin
- Cosmology
- Metaphysics
- Thomas Aquinas
- Natural theology
- School of thought
- Well-being
- Psychology
- Pantheism
- Panentheism
- Postmodernism
- Process theology
- Process philosophy
- Anglosphere
- Pre-Socratic philosophy
- Theology
Place in the tradition
Part of Existentialism.