When one looks at Whitehead's definition of speculative philosophy it read always like a Hegelian project. Not only the label "Speculative philosophy" itself has an Hegelian flavor, but also notions like "coherent", "logical" and especially "necessary", and last but not least the notion of "systems" itself. Indeed, Whitehead situates himself in the Greek tradition of belief in the logos and in the reasonableness of reality. "Things are reasonably together." But his concept of Speculative philosophy is-as I will argue-a late-modern concept, which means a contemporary concept, since especially looked upon from the standpoint of Whitehead, contemporary philosophy is-or rather should be-late-modern, rather that post-modern.