The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics

by Henri Bergson

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The Nobel laureate discusses not only how and why he became a philosopher but also his conception of philosophy as a field distinct from science and literature. A source of inspiration for physicists as well as philosophers, Bergson's essays declare the emphasis of intuition over intellect.

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Um ensaio simpático que expõe a concepção vitalista bergsoniana do que é a metafísica e de porque ela sobreviveria aos impedimentos kantianos. Não obstante, é bastante difícil para mim aceitar as ideias postas da maneira como o são: a intuição que apreende o processual/móvel/contínuo que se essencializa na noção de duração me é demasiado psicologicamente humana e eu diria que a ideia de continuidade é hipostasiada. Embora eu acredite em um papel importante da intuição, tudo aquilo que reforça uma oposição entre conceito fixo e redutor e a intuição como o lugar real da apreensão, dando espaço ao inefável, leva-me a pensar como o conceito de conceito estaria possivelmente sendo pensado de modo incompleto, ou show more frágil. show less
Vepra përbëhet nga një sërë esesh të shkruara në vitet 1903-1923, dhe përbëhet njëkohësisht nga një hyrje në metafizikë, një autobiografi filozofike e autorit dhe një kritikë tërësore të filozofisë.

Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) lindi në Paris, i dyti ndër shtatë fëmijë, nga prindër hebrenj me origjinë polake dhe angleze. Fillimisht studioi matematikë, por më pas u fut në École Normale për letra dhe filozofi. Shkroi gjerësisht për çështje të ontologjisë dhe metafizikës dhe në gjallje gëzoi popullaritet të pazakontë për një filozof, për ta humbur mandej ndikimin rreth viteve 1940. Vepra e tij rifitoi vëmendje veçanërisht pas vitit 1966, që përkon me intersimin e Gilles Deleuze dhe show more konceptin bergsonian të “shumësisë” (multiplicité). show less
Metaphysics is intuition

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Born in Paris in 1859 of Jewish parents, Henri Bergson received his education there and subsequently taught at Angers and Clermont-Ferraud before returning to Paris. He was appointed professor of philosophy at the College de France in 1900 and elected a member of the French Academy in 1914. Bergson developed his philosophy by stressing the show more biological and evolutionary elements involved in thinking, reasoning, and creating. He saw the vitalistic dimension of the human species as being of the greatest importance. Bergson's writings were acclaimed not only in France and throughout the learned world. In 1927 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. In defiance of the Nazis after their conquest of France, Bergson insisted on wearing a yellow star to show his solidarity with other French Jews. Shortly before his death in 1941, Bergson gave up all his positions and renounced his many honors in protest against the discrimination against Jews by the Nazis and the Vichy French regime. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title
The Creative Mind: An Introduction to Metaphysics
Original title
La pensée et le mouvant
Alternate titles
The Creative Mind; Introduction to Metaphysics
Original publication date
1934; 1928 (Netherlands) (Netherlands)
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William James; Jean-Gaspard-Felix Lache Ravaisson
First words
What philosophy has lacked most of all is precision.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Is there anything more daring, anything newer than to announce to physicists that the inert will be explained by the living, to biologists that life will only be understood through thought, to philosophers that generalities are not philosophical, to teachers that the whole must be taught before its elements, to students that one must begin by perfection, to man, more than ever given over to egoism and hatred, that the natural driving power of man is generosity?
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French

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Philosophy, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
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110Philosophy & psychologyMetaphysics (existence, purpose, and the nature of reality)Metaphysics
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B2430 .B4 .P362Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPhilosophy (General)By periodModernBy region or country
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