Henri Bergson

Time and Free Will

An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

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Produktbeschreibung

First published in 2002. Henri Louis Bergson was born in Paris, October 18, 1859. He entered the Ecole normale in 1878, and was admitted agrégé de philosophie in 1881 and docteur és lettres in 1889. After holding professorships in various provincial and Parisian lycées, he became maître de conférences at the Ecole normale supérieure in 1897, and since 1900 has been professor at the Collége de France. In 1901 he became a member of the Institute on his election to the Académie des Sciences morales et politiques.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 359g
• ISBN-13: 9781138870994
• ISBN-10: 1138870994
• Artikelnr.: 42489419

Autorenporträt

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was a renowned French philosopher and writer, known for his insightful and original contributions to the fields of philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics. Born in Paris, Bergson's philosophical ideas greatly influenced 20th-century thought and continue to resonate today. Bergson's work emphasized the importance of intuition and lived experience over purely rational and intellectual analysis. Through keen observation and philosophical analysis, Bergson examines the social, psychological, and physiological aspects of humor, offering profound insights into the nature of comedy and its role in human society. Bergson's philosophical ideas and writing style had a profound impact on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, psychology, and film theory. He received numerous accolades for his work, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927.¿

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter I The Intensity of Psychic States; Chapter II 1I had already
completed the present work when I read in the Critique philosophique (for
1883 and 1884) F. Pillon's very remarkable refutation of an interesting
article by G. Noel on the interconnexion of the notions of number and
space. But I have not found it necessary to make any alterations in the
following pages, seeing that Pillon does not distinguish between time as
quality and time as quantity, between the multiplicity of juxtaposition and
that of interpenetration. Without this vital distinction, which it is the
chief aim of the present chapter to establish, it would be possible to
maintain, with Pillon, that number may be built up from the relation of
co-existence. But what is here meant by co-existence ? If the co-existing
terms form an organic whole, they will never lead us to the notion of
number; if they remain distinct, they are in juxtaposition and we are
dealing with space. It is no use to quote the example of simultaneous
impressions received by several senses. We either leave these sensations
their specific differences, which amounts to saying that we do not count
them; or else we eliminate their differences, and then how are we to
distinguish them if not by their position or that of their symbols ? We
shall see that the verb " to distinguish " has two meanings, the one
qualitative, the other quantitative : these two meanings have been
confused, in my opinion, by the philosophers who have dealt with the
relations between number and space. The Idea of Duration; Chapter III The
Organization of Conscious States Free Will; Conclusion;