Organism, Process, Political Philosophy

Whitehead conceives a Leibnizian Monad as both a Process and an Organism.  However, he does not explain the application of a dynamic concept of Organism to the traditional one, to which, as a living Whole of Parts, duration seems inessential.  One possible exception, though, is Aristotle's, according to which it is in the pursuit of an End that the parts of a body are both animated and unified.  So, writ large, a Polity that is both an Organism and a Process is one that harmonizes its citizen by the pursuit of a common Good.  Now, typically throughout history, such a unifier of a society has been a potential enemy, if not an actual conflict.  But, a Leader who is acting on the basis of a vision of the Idea of the Good is one who would transcend the particularity of an End that is contingent on animosity.  So, an extension of Whitehead's concept of dynamic Organism to Political Philosophy yields a criticism of the particularity of most prior models of the best Polity.  But, insofar as Leibniz does not recognize Monads as collectively constituting an Organism, Whitehead might not approve of such an extension.