Abstract

It is demonstrated that this theory has important logical connections to the process metaphysics outlined in Process and Reality and the Whiteheadian axiological cosmology found in Neville's The Cosmology of Freedom. ;In the final suggestion of an ethic for process metaphysics, The Social Adjustment Theory is expanded with God conceived as the ultimate selective system, a possibility which Pepper had envisioned, and one which accords with Whitehead's Theological Cosmology. ;One of the most important of factors in the experienced world is value. Whitehead accordingly grants it a central place in his categoreal scheme. However, Whitehead and the Whiteheadians have been nonexplicit in the interpretation of the concrete moral situation which dominates our daily lives. ;The thesis of my dissertation is that Stephen Pepper has offered the outlines of an ethics qualified to fill this gap in Process Philosophy. The system advanced is the ethical theory contained in Pepper's works The Sources of Value and Ethics, the Social Adjustment Theory