The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
by Henri Bergson
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Henri Bergson inquires into the nature of moral obligation, into the place of religion and the purpose it has served since primitive times, into static religion and its value in preserving man from the dangers of his own intelligence; into dynamic religion or mysticism as a means of producing man's forward leap beyond the limits of the closed society for which nature intended him and into the open society which is the brotherhood of man.Tags
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Difficult (as all of Bergson is difficult, his philosophy being an effort to use the mind to "think backwards") but deep and richly rewarding.
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> « [La démocratie] proclame la liberté, réclame l’égalité et réconcilie ces deux soeurs
ennemies en leur rappelant qu’elles sont soeurs, en mettant au-dessus de tout la fraternité.
Qu’on prenne de ce biais la devise républicaine, on trouvera que le troisième
terme lève la contradiction si souvent signalée entre les deux autres, et que la
fraternité est l’essentiel : ce qui permettrait de dire que la démocratie est d’essence
évangélique, et qu’elle a pour moteur l’amour. »
—Henri Bergson, Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion, Partie 1, (1932).
ennemies en leur rappelant qu’elles sont soeurs, en mettant au-dessus de tout la fraternité.
Qu’on prenne de ce biais la devise républicaine, on trouvera que le troisième
terme lève la contradiction si souvent signalée entre les deux autres, et que la
fraternité est l’essentiel : ce qui permettrait de dire que la démocratie est d’essence
évangélique, et qu’elle a pour moteur l’amour. »
—Henri Bergson, Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion, Partie 1, (1932).
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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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- Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion
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- Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion
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- 1932
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- Henri Bergson
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- The remembrance of forbidden fruit is the earliest thing in the memory of each of us, as it is in that of mankind.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Theirs the responsibility, then, for deciding if they want merely to live, or intend to make just the extra effort required for fulfilling, even on their refractory planet, the essential function of the universe, which is a machine for the making of gods.
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