Philosophy
Birth and education--Teaches at Clermont-Ferrand--Les donnees immediates de la conscience--Matiere et Memoire--Chair of Greek Philosophy, then of Modern Philosophy, College de France--L'Evolution creatrice--Relations with William James--Visits England and America--Popularity--...
LE ROY, Edouard. Une Philosophie nouvelle: Henri Bergson. Paris, 1912. English Translation: A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson, by Vincent Benson. 1913. Williams and Norgate. Pp. 2...
4. Chapter 4Definition--Two forms--memorizing power related to habit; recalling power or "pure" memory. Is memory a function of the brain?--Pathological Phenomena. Memory something other th...
10. Chapter 10Anti-intellectualism and the State--Syndicalism--Class war, "direct action." Sorel advocates General Strike--Bergson cited in support--Unfair use of Bergson's view of reality--H...
1. Chapter 1Birth and education--Teaches at Clermont-Ferrand--Les donnees immediates de la conscience--Matiere et Memoire--Chair of Greek Philosophy, then of Modern Philosophy, College de F...
12. Chapter 12Bergson not systematic--His style--Difficult to classify--Empirical and spiritual--Value of his ideas on Change, the nature of Mind, of Freedom--Difficulties in his evolutionary...
14. Chapter 141878 SOLUTION OF A MATHEMATICAL PROBLEM. This, his first published work, appeared when he was nineteen years of age in Annales de Mathematiques. (Brisse et Gerono.) It is of int...
7. Chapter 7Spirit of man revolts from physical and psychological determinism--Former examined and rejected--The latter more subtle--Vice of "associationism"--Psychology without a self. Con...
8. Chapter 8Work of Darwin and Spencer--Bergson's L'Evolution creatrice--Life--L'elan vital--Evolution not progress in a straight line--Adaptation an insufficient explanation--Falsity of me...
6. Chapter 6Our ordinary conception of Time false because it is spatial and homogeneous--Real Time (la duree) not spatial or homogeneous--Flow of consciousness a qualitative multiplicity--T...
3. Chapter 3Images as data--Nerves, afferent and efferent, cannot beget images, nor can the brain give rise to representations--All our perception relative to action. Denial of this involve...
9. Chapter 9We now approach the grand climax of Bergson's philosophy, his doctrine of Intuition, which he preaches with all the vigour of an evangelist. Our study of his treatment of Change...
5. Chapter 5The hypothesis of Psycho-physical Parallelism--Not to be accepted uncritically--Bergson opposes it, and shows the hypothesis to rest on a confusion of terms. Bergson against Epi...
11. Chapter 11Avoidance of theological terms--Intuition and faith--God and Change--Deity not omnipotent but creative and immanent--God as "Creator of creators"--Problem of teleology--Stimulus...
2. Chapter 2Fundamental in Bergson's philosophy. We are surrounded by changes--we ourselves change--Belief in change--Simplicity of change--Immobility is composite and relative--All movemen...
13. Chapter 13The books and articles which have appeared, dealing with Bergson's thought, are truly legion. Three bibliographies have already been compiled, one in each of the countries: Engl...