Abstract
Woolf's fiction, critical essays and her autobiographical writing is characteristic of its unifying and equalizing tendencies. They may be accounted for the author's personal organic philosophy intimated in "A Sketch of the Past".
The idea of interconnection of human beings appears also in A Room of One's Own where Woolf plays with the idea that one's mind can merge with the minds of other people, but more importantly, she levels the distinction between sexes by stating that "one must be woman-manly or man-womanly". The bond between all human beings is most strikingly demonstrated in The Waves where the six characters create "the globe of life" or "cauldron" which is constantly permeated by the rest of the universe.
Moreover, Woolf also emphasizes the characters' connection to natural environment in "Poetry, Fiction and the Future" and undermines the role of the human subject, for example in "Flying Over London" where she admits that "so inveterately anthropocentric is the mind". The aim of this conference paper is to link these unifying and equalizing undertones in Woolf's writing to Alfred North Whitehead's "philosophy of organism" based on the principle or relationality.
Whitehead's basic constituents of reality, actual occasions, are defined as "drop of experience, complex and interdependent" and the process of their creation as "the many become one and are increased by one". Moreover, Whitehead highlights in Modes of Thought that the human body is inseparable from its natural environment and that "everything has some value for itself, for others and for the whole".