Speculative Whole Revised

How to think of the Whole? Our theoretical find-ings on that matter emanate from the critical response to D. F. Verene‟s account of the idea of the Whole, which is specula-tive and necessary for true philosophy. As this study shows, the idea in its essence depends upon two main criteria, onto-logical and epistemological. Both criteria perfectly demon-strate the logic of supplementation, which undermines the original conception. We argue that the speculative Whole has to be revisited. First, the only possibility to provide the con-nection between the idea of the Whole and self-knowledge in a consistent way could be given through the idea of holistic living. Secondly, the Whole must be thought virtual: that al-lows the Whole to exist in a variety of drafts, exclusive of the one true. Both our theoretical gestures result in a significant convergence of the concepts of the Whole and Becoming.