Adventures of Ideas

* Book: Adventures of Ideas. A.N. Whitehead. Cambridge Univ. Press, 1933

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From the Brittanica:

"Adventures of Ideas (1933) was Whitehead’s last big philosophical book and the most rewarding one for the general reader. It offered penetrating, balanced reflections on the parts played by brute forces and by general ideas about humanity, God, and the universe in shaping the course of Western civilization. Whitehead emphasized the impulse of life toward newness and the absolute need for societies stable enough to nourish adventure that is fruitful rather than anarchic. In this book he also summarized his metaphysics and used it to elucidate the nature of beauty, truth, art, adventure, and peace. By “peace” he meant a religious attitude that is “primarily a trust in the efficacy of beauty.”

(https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-North-Whitehead/Career-in-the-United-States#ref221618)