| 单词 | Bergson |
| 例句 | As an educated Frenchman, Charbonnier would have read his Baudelaire and his Bergson—just two of the high-ranking French authors who have taken it upon themselves to theorize about the comic spirit. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z If Baudelaire leaves you wondering, quietly, whether the fall of man was set in motion by a dropped banana skin, then Bergson’s offering, entitled simply “Laughter,” ushers us toward a more remedial definition. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Bergson’s insight adds nuance to Baudelaire’s view of the comic as essential to our fallen condition: In paradise, there is no need or occasion for laughter. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z What Bergson deplores is encrustation—the way in which we dry and stiffen up, taking ourselves, our poses, and our beliefs so seriously that they sap us of pliability, poise, and goodwill. Shooting the Jesters 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The piece invites viewers to settle in and watch a video of paint dripping over the mold of a brain as Weitz whispers more French philosophy, this time from Henri Bergson. Julie Weitz's 'Touch Museum' tweaks time and space 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Bergson isn’t saying that laughter is by definition cruel, only that it operates outside the realm of things like pity, sympathy and fellow feeling. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z When applied to contemporary cultural politics, Bergson confirms what is sometimes seen as a fatal indictment of liberalism, that it is humorless. Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z The great comic theorist Henri Bergson taught us that human beings are funny when they behave like machines: Ayckbourn reverses that by showing that machines are funny when they behave like humans. Surprises – theatre review 2012-07-17T11:29:54Z One that sent Mr. Bolton not just into his own storage room but down a conceptual wormhole: through Charles Baudelaire and the early-20th-century philosopher Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein and Walter Benjamin, Proust and Virginia Woolf. How Memory Maps Fashion’s Future 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z In our conversation, he casually referenced such thinkers as John Ruskin, Bertrand Russell and Henri-Louis Bergson, but was just as quick to ad-lib a flatulence joke. John Cale’s Musical Journey Knows No Limits 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z Before our meeting, he'd posted me two books – Arthur Koestler's Act of Creation and Henri Bergson's Laughter – so I was keeping a straight face. John Cleese: 'Anger is the deadly sin I've had most difficulty with' 2013-06-15T22:00:01Z Bergson says of laughter, “Indifference is its natural environment, for laughter has no greater foe than emotion.” Perspective | A humor exhibition at NGA might not be funny, but it reminds us to laugh at what’s stupid 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z His father, Thomas, was a writer and English teacher, and his mother, Dr. Lucy Bergson LaFarge, is editor of The Psychoanalytic Quarterly. Paul La Farge, Inventive Novelist, Is Dead at 52 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z She reads Wittgenstein and Bergson and roams the streets and rides the subway. Was That Really Me? A Novelist Discovers Her Younger Self 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z He seems propelled by an unseen power source — something along the quixotic lines of Henri Bergson’s mysterious, unknowable élan vital. 'Doug Aitken: Electric Earth': Why MOCA's big new show has too few sparks 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z When Bergson, who was Jewish, died of natural causes in January 1941, the abyss was still deepening. Exhibitions: Occupation of France During World War II Revisited in Words 2011-06-08T12:05:29Z He stood alongside Simon Bergson, the foundation’s chairman, who was born after the war to Auschwitz survivors, and mentioned his own family history. Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz in message against hatred 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The former California governor and Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation Chairman Simon Bergson, the son of Holocaust survivors, highlighted how prejudice can be wiped out in the space of a generation. Schwarzenegger calls for 'fight against hate' during Auschwitz visit 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z He stood alongside Simon Bergson, who was born after the war to Auschwitz survivors, and mentioned his own family history. Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz in message against hatred 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The show’s framework would be the rival “concepts of temporality” espoused by the poet Charles Baudelaire and the philosopher Henri Bergson, said Bolton. Met museum to mark 150th year with time-themed fashion show 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Later, Henri Bergson’s idea of élan vital — described by the French philosopher as “the explosive internal force that life carries within itself” — fueled her work. Meet six artists making the public art you'll soon see on Metro's Crenshaw/LAX Line 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Bergson added: “Arnold and I are living proof that within one generation hatred can be shifted entirely. Governor, thank you for joining us here today.” Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz in message against hatred 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z He had been exposed at length to the philosopher Henri Bergson, whom he chose to read as a kind of proto-existentialist. How Charles de Gaulle Rescued France 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z He said he and Bergson, who are close in age, were united in their work. Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz in message against hatred 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Bergson challenged this view and “argued that basic sense of temporal succession was an illusion. He contended that time exists as duration, a continuous flow in which thoughts, feelings and memories exist together.” Met museum to mark 150th year with time-themed fashion show 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, posited the same model of the brain. Sacred Knowledge: how psychedelics shaped an academic's life 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z On April 6, 1922, Einstein clashed with the most famous philosopher of the day, Henri Bergson, about the nature of time. Book Review: The Physicist and the Philosopher 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z It was an incendiary topic at the time, and it shaped a split between science and humanities that persisted for decades — though Einstein was generally seen as the winner and Bergson is all but forgotten. For an Einstein anniversary, some new knowledge 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z The wall text relates this to the theories of thinkers like Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein. | Long Island: A Review of ‘Absorbed by Color’ at the Heckscher Museum of Art 2012-11-10T20:04:17Z The modern system of intuition, towards which they hurry, following Bergson, its celebrated defender, represents decided reaction against rationalism, or to be more exact, against the powerlessness of rationalism.... The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z Mr. Hutton had undergone similar bombardments, mostly of a literary or philosophic character—bombardments of Maeterlinck, of Mrs. Besant, of Bergson, of William James. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z Roosevelt was talking French, and when he could not find the word he wanted, he used an English term for which Bergson would then give him the French equivalent. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z In “The Physicist and the Philosopher,” Canales recounts how Bergson challenged Einstein’s theories, arguing that time is not a fourth dimension definable by scientists but a “vital impulse,” the source of creativity. For an Einstein anniversary, some new knowledge 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Not to be put in any philosophical pigeonhole, he is as far removed from the eclecticism of Victor Cousin as from the verbal jugglery and metaphysical murmurings of Henri Bergson. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z While the message of Bergson is iconoclastic, a titanic warfare against the formal gods, it is by no means destructive. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z She read Bergson too, and now and then "got completely bogged" in him, finding no "central point that led anywhere." Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Bergson was regarded as the unofficial representative of France in our country at the time. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z But what Bergson did not do for him, has been partly done, though indirectly, as the same thing has been done for the world more than by any other man, by Fiske. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z Professor Bergson thinks he is disproving a crude theory of localisation of mental qualities. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Bergson and his love for Yetta had jolted him out of this attitude. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Like Bergson he is a poet and a humorist in his analogies and illustrations. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Professor Bergson and Mr. Beck drank and responded to toasts with eloquent fervor. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z The paradoxical student of Bergson, who did not see these flowers, has since grown to a better realization of them, and of the Law of Evolution. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z With Bergson the divinity of diving into the subconscious—what else is his intuition?—is set before the lovers of the mystic to worship. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Bergson and the pragmatists had shaken him out of his intellectual rut. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z ‘The attitudes, gestures and movements of the human body,’ says M. Bergson, ‘are laughable in exact proportion as that body reminds us of a mere machine.’ The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z On the very day that Congress declared war against Germany, April 6, 1917, we were giving a dinner at our home to Professor Henri Bergson. Under Four Administrations From Cleveland to Taft 2012-03-16T02:00:21.923Z “No,” said Bergson, “I have shown that the flowers necessarily grow out of it.” The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z This doctrine seems familiar enough now, as does the flux of Heraclitus and the Becoming of Renan, in the teachings of Bergson. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Henry Bergson Though referring to biological systems, Bergson’s assertion can be applied to social systems, especially in the high-technology industries where change has been far more radical than conventional wisdom inclines to suppose. Managing Talent: The Dilemma of the High-Tech Innovator 2011-12-16T17:09:21Z The jokes which amuse the frequenters of music-halls, Conservatives, and M. Bergson—and which usually deal with accidents, physical defects, mothers-in-law, foreigners, or over-ripe cheese—are usually jokes of the first order. The philosophy of B*rtr*nd R*ss*ll 2011-12-30T03:00:24.883Z Believe, dear Professor Bergson, the high admiration and regard with which I remain, always sincerely yours, WM. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z Bergson describes an élan vital—a living impetus—determining such phenomena. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The philosophy of Henri Bergson is one; that philosophy, full of poetic impulsion, graceful phrasing, and charming evocations; a feminine, nervous, fleshless philosophy, though deriving, as it does, from an intellectual giant, Emile Boutroux. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This is the essence of the philosophy of Bergson. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z Science is, I think, generally used by M. Bergson for intellectual knowledge in contradistinction to intuitional knowledge. Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z I have been re-reading Bergson's books, and nothing that I have read in years has so excited and stimulated my thought. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z For as Bergson says, "it is to the very inwardness of Life that Intuition leads us." Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z The vital impulse, intuitionalism, and rhythmic flow of time in Bergson caught the fancy of the poets. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It is this kind of consideration, I think, which leads Bergson and many others to regard a movement as really one indivisible whole, not the series of separate states imagined by the mathematician. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z An act implies an agent, and the agency of which the evolved is a manifestation is for M. Bergson Life, while for Spencer it is that very vigorous agency—the Unknowable. Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z I am sending you my "Pragmatism," which Bergson's work makes seem like small potatoes enough. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The activists, known as the Bergson group, have been credited by modern historians with playing a pivotal role in rescuing hundreds of thousands of European Jews. Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z Notwithstanding the persuasive rhetoric of that silken sophist Henri Bergson, a belated visionary metaphysician in a world of realities, the trend of latter-day thought is toward the veritable victories of science. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The view urged explicitly by Bergson, and implied in the doctrines of many philosophers, is, that a motion is something indivisible, not validly analysable into a series of states. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Now in criticizing Spencer, M. Bergson says: 'The usual device of the Spencerian method consists in reconstructing evolution with the fragments of the evolved.... Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z As for Bergson, I think your change of the word "comic" into the word "tragic" throughout his book is impayable, and I have no doubt it is true. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z On July 17, Yad Vashem, the official Holocaust remembrance authority in Jerusalem, which had ignored the Bergson group in its exhibits, held a symposium on it for the first time. Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z And the brain, that telephonic centre, according to Bergson, is become another organ. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This is like Bergson's objection to “the absurd proposition that motion is made up of immobilities.” Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z But does Spencer ever suggest that we shall thus reach the principle of that which evolves—by which, if I mistake not, M. Bergson means the Source of evolution? Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z Dear Bergson,—My brother was sorry that you couldn't come. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The Bergson group formed in 1940 when about 10 young Jews from Palestine and Europe came to the United States to open a fund-raising and propaganda operation for the Irgun, the right-wing Zionist militia. Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z Bergson says, 'Time is a stuff both resistant and substantial.' Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This is what M. Bergson calls the cinematographic representation of reality. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z For Spencer, as for M. Bergson, we live in a world of change. Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z God sent me straight to you with my story about Bergson's cablegram—the only other person to whom I have told it was Henry Higginson. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z “This was an era in which militant civil action was just not done, certainly not by Jews,” said Charley Levine, an Israeli-based international communications and public relations expert who has studied the Bergson group. Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z It is this which makes it difficult to accept Professor Bergson’s most interesting and suggestive theory of the mechanical nature of comedy as wholly satisfactory. Chaucer and His Times 2011-06-30T02:00:26.883Z Many others, like M. Bergson, have preferred to deny that space and time consist of points and instants. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z As a matter of fact, M. Bergson seems to put into Life, as Spencer put into the Unknowable, the potentiality of producing all that actually exists. Spencer's Philosophy of Science The Herbert Spencer Lecture Delivered at the Museum 7 November, 1913 2011-09-25T02:00:15.883Z But the best of all these meetings has been one of three hours this very morning with Bergson, who is here visiting his relatives. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The Bergson group was no less ostracized by the leaders of Israel after its founding in May 1948. Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z James' view of the mind carried further by Bergson. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z To this question, a negative answer has been given by Bergson, in a form which calls in question the general applicability of the law of causation. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Unlike the philosophies of Kant or Hegel or Spencer or James or Comte or Bergson, it is not a “one-man” philosophy. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z While considering this plan, he cabled M. Bergson to inquire as to the possibility of a meeting in Paris or elsewhere. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The dissension led to the Bergson group’s being blanked out of the early histories of the Holocaust. Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z What had been more or less negative criticism in Mach and Boutroux, became the basis of a new philosophy in the hands of William James and Bergson. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Bergson's contention has undoubtedly a great deal of truth, and I have no wish to deny its importance. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z He thought of Doctor Codger at Cambridge, bubbling away with his iridescent Hegelianism like a salted snail; of Doctor Quiller at Oxford, ignoring Bergson and fulminating a preposterous insular Pragmatism. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z No one but one bawn & bred in the philosophic briar-patch could appreciate Bergson as you do, without in the least understanding him. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z But with the perspective of time and the opening of additional Holocaust era archives, including Mr. Merlin’s, the Bergson group has begun to be reinsinuated into Jewish history. Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z But it remained for Bergson to demonstrate that the mechanical view was the inevitable product of the mental processes which we describe by the word "intellect." Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z And there is nothing in Bergson's argument to show that we can never predict what kind of act will be performed. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z His Bergson sold as successfully as his Exercises for the Bedroom—because he chose the writer. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z But I refuse to have Pragmatism judged by Bergson. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Instead of attacking Mr. Bergson, they should have focused on the rescue mission, he wrote, adding, “That was their obligation, and they failed.” Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z The path which led Bergson to this goal will have to be briefly indicated by us. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Another respect in which Bergson's statement of causation is inadequate is in its assumption that the cause must be one event, whereas it may be two or more events, or even some continuous process. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Bergson began with 'is intuition, and professors like Frood of Vienna and Young of Zurich caught on like lightning. The Promise of Air 2011-02-02T03:00:23.997Z “It is only through Bergson that the Mind of the Race, the great operating mass mind out there, can take hold of this new system of ideas….” Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z “There was always this simmering tension between the Bergson group and the Israeli government,” Mr. Weinraub said in a telephone interview. Belatedly Recognizing Heroes of the Holocaust 2011-08-06T18:30:20Z Bergson finds this faculty in what he calls "instinct." Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z But we easily perceive a certain law according to which the effect varies as the previous readings increase in number, and in fact Bergson himself tacitly assumes such a law. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z This would, of course, be the falsification against which Bergson inveighs. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude She firmly believes that old quack Bergson is a bigger man than her own unapproachable William James…. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Study also the work of the French philosopher, Bergson, and that of the German, Eucken, recent visitors to America. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. Man possesses some measure of instinct, which, when it has "become disinterested, self-conscious, and capable of reflecting upon its object," Bergson calls intuition. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Thus the kinds of cases upon which Bergson relies are insufficient to show the impossibility of prediction in the only sense in which prediction has practical or emotional interest. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z The optical response is a response which, in the language of Bergson, prefigures or sketches out the act of a later moment. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Bergson is of that class and type that exploits the affairs of thought. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z That is why even if William Shakespeare, Anatole France, and Bergson are only other and better known names for Hégésippe, it would be madness to destroy such enthusiasm as has gathered round them. The Book of This and That Against this aspect of contemporary philosophy, the work of James and Bergson has been a revolt. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z In academic France, in spite of M. Bergson, it is far stronger than all its opponents combined; and in Germany it has many vigorous advocates. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z The explanation of experience that we find in James and Bergson approximates this view so closely in one respect and departs from it so widely in another as to warrant a brief discussion. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude "Why not bag a bit of James Ward, a bit of Bergson, a bit of Croce, and be Pampsychistic Pluralistic Realistic Modern Young Men?" Years of Plenty In advanced circles you can already say what you like about Bergson. The Book of This and That Henri Bergson.—This line of criticism, that of the evolutionary psychologist, opened up by James, has been carried to extreme lengths by the French philosopher Bergson. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Nietzsche, pragmatism, Bergson, are phases in its philosophic development, and their popularity far beyond the circles of professional philosophers shows its consonance with the spirit of the age. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z A prominent characteristic of the doctrine advocated by James and Bergson is the emphasis given to the foreshadowings or anticipations of the future. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The academy of moral science, in the person of its president, Bergson, declares the struggle undertaken against Germany to be "the struggle of civilization itself against barbarism." Above the Battle This year it is Croce; last year it was Bergson; the year before that it was William James; the year before that it was Nietzsche. The Book of This and That Zeno's paradox arises because of an innate fault in the "intellectual" method of dealing with motion; a method which Bergson calls "cinematographical," because it regards a single movement as a succession of infinitely small motions. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z M. Bergson's form of finalism depends upon his conception of life. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z In the case of Bergson and James, however, the clue that is furnished by response is discarded. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The “Introduction to Metaphysics,” although the shortest, is one of the most important of Bergson’s writings. Tourcoing Bergson tells us that the former is more adapted to the inorganic, the latter more to life. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law Bergson's philosophy is, in fact, a reaction against intellectualism or rationalism; by which is meant the theory that pure reason is competent by its nature to give a complete and exhaustive account of reality. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Bergson, under the name of “intuition,” has raised instinct to the position of sole arbiter of metaphysical truth. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z A system like Bergson's is such a work, and its æsthetic adequacy, its beauty, may be measured by the acknowledgment it receives and the influence it exercises. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Every expositor of Bergson has hitherto found it necessary to quote “An Introduction to Metaphysics” at considerable length, yet the book has never before been available in English. Tourcoing M. Bergson insists on the irrelevance of spatial terms to psychic processes, but overlooks the equal irrelevance of terms of preventable personal action. Rationalism Thus Bergson regards it as impossible that intellect should ever supply us with the complete truth about reality; there are things, e.g. life itself—which altogether elude its grasp. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z These more or less trite maxims may be illustrated by application to Bergson's advocacy of “intuition” as against “intellect.” Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z At this point the weakness in Bergson's view of logical operations appears. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude During the last few years the author has been able to discuss many points of difficulty with M. Bergson himself. Tourcoing Sooth to say, neither the analyses nor the syntheses of M. Bergson are in any way damaging to rationalism, or in any way rationally ancillary to supernaturalism. Rationalism Bergson's "élan vital" has much the same meaning. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Bergson apparently holds that capacity for this kind of knowledge is less explicable by the struggle for existence than, for example, capacity for pure mathematics. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Bergson, too, is impressed by the break in continuity between logical operations and the rest of experience. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude University statesmen like President Butler, eminent lawyers like Mr. James Beck, illustrious philosophers like Professor Bergson, have testified to its fairness, its moderation, and its political insight. German Problems and Personalities The very theses in science which M. Bergson contemns were reached by the way which he arbitrarily pronounces ‘superior’ to the way of reason. Rationalism We hope that Max Beerbohm read far enough in Bergson to appreciate what Mr. Santayana says of that philosopher. The So-called Human Race This rigmarole of metaphysics betrays the influence of the Henri Bergson philosophy, the philosophy of rhythm and rhythmic motion. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Bergson's polemic seems perfectly valid against such a use of the notion. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude To these voices from Germany or England we can add that of M. Bergson from France. God and the World A Survey of Thought And here again M. Bergson’s criticism, though searching, is not new, however freshly put. Rationalism I suppose Bergson would have to reply that it came into existence at the moment that the first specific stimulus was applied. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution Such in outline is Bergson's theory of the interpenetration of psychic states. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Indeed, caricature itself, as Bergson has pointed out, emphasizes those "automatic, mechanical-toy" traits of character and behavior which isolate the individual and make him ill adapted for his function in society. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Perhaps the most astonishing thing about M. Bergson's philosophy is his unreadiness to allow that the consciousness, which he says is everywhere at work, has any deliberate purpose in its working. God and the World A Survey of Thought M. Bergson is all for the ‘creative’ aspect of evolution, the Living Now, the emergence of the latest phenomenon as not merely the result of the one before, but the living manifestation of the whole. Rationalism III At this time I read Bergson's Creative Evolution—a masterpiece of thinking by a man who, like most others, is seeking for God. The Prodigal Returns In particular the brilliant observations and theories of M. Bergson throw, so it seems to the writer, a flood of light on Christology. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Much of this falls under Bergson's conception of humor as social censure. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Like many another, M. Bergson cannot bring himself to believe that death is to be the end of all that has been thus painfully achieved during this process of attainment. God and the World A Survey of Thought But this argument, which excludes M. Bergson’s formula of our occasional ‘freedom’ of will, equally shelters determinism from the contention that we are ‘conscious’ of freedom of thought. Rationalism The selections from Schopenhauer and Bergson may be regarded, therefore, as the characteristic reactions of two strikingly different temperaments to the conception of progress and to life. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It is, says Bergson, characteristic of psychic states that they do not, like material things remain external to one another. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology So far, therefore, we must class it with the great mathematical laws and dissent from M. Bergson. Progress and History What is specially characteristic of M. Bergson is the insistence that this power of choice is an evidence of Consciousness. God and the World A Survey of Thought Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte, Leibnitz, Nietzsche, Hume, Bradley, William James had all been rejected and were piled on the floor, but he had hesitated longer over Bergson's Creative Evolution. The Wonder Insensibility has been justly noted by M. Bergson as an essential characteristic of him who laughs. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Bergson's psychology throws further light on a central doctrine of catholic Christology. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology It must not, however, be for a moment supposed that the scepticism of Montaigne is identical with the so-called "pragmatism" of William James or with the "instinct theories" of Bergson. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations M. Bergson does not differ from this when he says that, "the soul—essentially action, will, liberty—is the creative force par excellence, the productive agent of novelty in the world." God and the World A Survey of Thought When Bergson was sent to join his predecessors, I determined that I would get some word out of this strange child—I had never yet heard him speak, not a single syllable. The Wonder M. Bergson admits this, justly enough, it appears, when he defines laughter as a social bromide. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Bergson draws a sharp line of distinction between these two. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology It requires a psychologist, like William James, or a philosopher, like Bergson, to explain what a joke is, and then most of us cannot understand the explanation. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Milton, in reality�in his temperament and his mood�was just as convinced of Will being the ultimate secret as Schopenhauer or Nietzsche or Bergson or the modern Pragmatist. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions His sympathetic appreciation of Professor Bergson's thought is well known, and he has expressed his admiration for it in one of the chapters of A Pluralistic Universe. Creative Evolution "The specific remedy for vanity," says M. Bergson, "is laughter, and the essentially ridiculous is vanity." Introduction to the Science of Sociology He is, as Bergson puts it, at the meeting-point of the upward and the downward currents. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology And Bergson, who has rightly perceived that the law as stated by philosophers is worthless, nevertheless continues to suppose that it is used in science. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Henri Bergson says: "… for us conscious beings, it is the units that matter, for we do not count extremities of intervals, we feel and live the intervals themselves." Humanistic Nursing Professor Bergson has himself carefully revised the whole work. Creative Evolution Several brilliant essays, as those by Sully, Dugas, and Bergson, appeared in one field alone, that of laughter. Introduction to the Science of Sociology If one seriously considers the matter it is—so it seems to me—utterly impossible to subscribe to the accidental theory of which the immanent god—the blind god of Bergson—is a mere variant. Science and Morals and Other Essays A great part of Bergson's attack on science rests on the assumption that it employs this principle. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Phase II: Nurse Knowing of the Other Intuitively Bergson conceives of man knowing through a dilatation of his imagination getting inside of, into le durée, into the rhythm and mobility of the other. Humanistic Nursing Professor James, of Harvard, said of Henri Bergson, the Parisian philosopher, that his utterance fitted his thought like that elastic silk underclothing which follows every movement of the skin. Mushrooms on the Moor Such "hair trigger" action has been postulated by both William James and Bergson, and is certainly in line with modern speculations in this direction. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Dr. Bergson uses a mixture composed of diluted sulphuric acid, 1 part; alcohol, 3 parts; honey, 2 parts; and 6 parts of wine vinegar. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance In fact, it employs no such principle, but philosophers—even Bergson—are too apt to take their views on science from each other, not from science. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Knowing intuitively, as described by Bergson, is comparable to Buber's considerations of man's necessary mode of becoming through "I-Thou" relation. Humanistic Nursing To Bergson, in his recent work L'Evolution Créatrice, evolution consists in an élan de vie which to our fragmentary observation and analytic reflexion appears as broken into a manifold of elements and processes. Evolution in Modern Thought It is apparent to any student of these problems that the interpretation of life which M. Bergson has adopted is very different from that usually held. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal His capacious brain filled with "knowledges" of the days when Gladstone was king and Darwin an outlaw, had little room for the scientific theories of Bergson and his like. A Daughter of the Middle Border My meaning in regard to the impermanence of physical entities may perhaps be made clearer by the use of Bergson's favourite illustration of the cinematograph. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Phase III: Nurse Knowing the Other Scientifically Bergson believes man knows incompletely through standing outside the thing to be known, metaphorically walking around it, and observing it. Humanistic Nursing By some evolutionists, Driesch and Bergson for example, evolution itself, in its steady production of higher types, has been held to be too purposive in character Page 320 to permit of a purely mechanical explanation. Human Traits and their Social Significance M. Bergson regards matter as the dam which keeps back the rush of life. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal He does for the average reader what Bergson and Eucken are doing for scholars; he rescues the soul and its faculties from their enslavement to logic-chopping. My Reminiscences Bergson apparently holds that capacity, for this kind of knowledge is less explicable by the struggle for existence than, for example, capacity for pure mathematics. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bergson says: "… analysis multiplies endlessly the points of view … to complete the ever incomplete representation." Humanistic Nursing The world may be in the making, as Bergson says, but it is being made of possibilities already inherent in it. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Do such facts exist which tell in favour of M. Bergson's theory as against the other? The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal This then being the nature and character of the soul, what weight is there in the arguments used against the soul's concrete existence by such thinkers as James and Bergson? The Complex Vision It has, I fancy, a good deal to do with the attractiveness of Bergson's "durée": since the past has effects now, it must still exist in some sense. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Buber's description of man's "I-It" way of relating to the world is in agreement with Bergson. Humanistic Nursing While Eucken has for many years occupied a position of commanding influence in the realm of thought, Bergson has only recently come into notice. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Before coming to them, however, I must draw attention to certain weaknesses in the generally held theory of life, which are, it seems to me, also shared by M. Bergson's theory. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Bergson is frankly and confessedly not a pluralist at all, but a spiritual monist. The Complex Vision These more or less trite maxims may be illustrated by application to Bergson's advocacy of "intuition" as against "intellect." Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Like Bergson, Buber views knowing as a movement from intuition to analysis, and not the other way around. Humanistic Nursing The idea of freedom is the corner-stone of Bergson's system, and his whole philosophy is a powerful vindication of the independence and self-determination of the human will. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics M. Bergson has gone part of the way, in his demonstration, but he has stopped there instead of carrying his train of argument to its logical conclusion. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal But Bergson's attitude towards the existence of a substantial soul-monad is consistently and inevitably hostile. The Complex Vision There are two kinds of evolutionist philosophy, of which both Hegel and Spencer represent the older and less radical kind, while Pragmatism and Bergson represent the more modern and revolutionary variety. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays M. Bergson's argument is quite similar, although he takes a very different standpoint from that of idealism. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Bergson's object is to vindicate the autonomy of consciousness, and his entire philosophy is a protest against every claim of determinism to dominate life. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics At least so it appears to me; for I think it obvious that the chain of argument which M. Bergson adopts can be carried much further than he has carried it, in his various writings. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal This consists in the fact that both Bergson and James have entirely omitted from their original instrument of research that inalienable aspect of the human soul which we call the aesthetic sense. The Complex Vision This conception of mental action forms, as will be seen, the foundation of the theory of dreams which Professor Bergson first presented in a lecture before the Institut psychologique, March 26, 1901. Dreams For the idea of Berkeley, and the image of Bergson, I substitute the term matter. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Though Bergson never refers to Hegel by name, he seems to be specially concerned in refuting the philosophy of the Absolute, according to which the world is conceived as the evolution of the infinite mind. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics M. Bergson has gone so far as to speak of life as a "power," as a "vital impetus"—utilizing matter for the purposes of its manifestation, etc. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal The complete absence of any discussion of the aesthetic sense in Bergson and James is probably an historic confession of the tyranny of commercialism and physical science over the present generation. The Complex Vision In this essay Professor Bergson made several contributions to our knowledge of dreams. Dreams M. Bergson places it before the movement, and supposes it to play with regard to it the part of exciting cause, or simply that of initiator. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps If 'tout est donné,' says Bergson, if all is given beforehand, 'why do over again what has already been completed, thus reducing life and endeavour to a mere sham.' Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Bergson says that in the war spirit of Germany one sees matter arrayed against spirit. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History This is really the place where we part company with Bergson and James. The Complex Vision The cause of this revival of interest is the new point of view brought forward by Professor Bergson in the paper which is here made accessible to the English-reading public. Dreams I cannot here say with what ingenuity, with what powerful logic, and with what close continuity of ideas M. Bergson develops his system, nor with what address he braves its difficulties. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps But at least we must acknowledge that Bergson has done to the world of thought the great service of liberating us from the bonds of matter and the thraldom of a fatalistic necessity. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Bergson says that Germany's energy comes from pride. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History In Bergson's interpretation of life the stress is laid upon "spirit" and "intuition." The Complex Vision To minds of this temperament it is no wonder that Bergson's Creative Evolution came with the force of an inspiration. Dreams One must read the page where M. Bergson struggles against what seems to me the evidence of the facts. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps In the philosophy of Eucken there is much that is in harmony with that of Bergson; but there are also important differences. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Other German writers praise the German government especially for its efficiency, for its incomparable body of officials—indeed for its very clock-work perfection that Bergson hates in Prussian life. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History Bergson's "apologia" for free-will is therefore rendered ineffective by reason of the fact that it does not really leave the individual free. The Complex Vision Bergson has been reluctant to commit himself on the question of immortality, but he of late has become quite convinced of it. Dreams Now, as therein lies, unless I mistake, the essential postulate, the heart of M. Bergson's theory, by not admitting it I must regretfully reject the whole. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps While Bergson confines himself rigidly to the metaphysical side of thought, Eucken is chiefly interested in the ethical and religious aspects of life's problem. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Bergson says that by industry man has increased his physical capacities, but now it is likely that his soul will become mechanized rather than that his soul will become great like his new body. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History Now it is true that by laying so much stress upon the "�lan vital" or flowing tide of creative energy, Bergson has indicated his acceptance of one side of the ultimate duality. The Complex Vision Since Butler's time, a new complexion has been put upon biological philosophy by the profound speculations of Bergson. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology I must confess that the last of these systems, that of M. Bergson, presents many difficulties. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Bergson would exclude rational thought and intelligence from life, creation, and initiative. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Industrialism lacks a soul, as Bergson would say. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History But for Bergson this creative impulse is not confronted by evil or by malice as its opposite, but simply by the natural inertness of mechanical "matter." The Complex Vision Eucken offers no support to theologians; and Bergson does not seem to express a clear belief in a personal god or personal immortality. The Necessity of Atheism But it is not he who exercised a suggestion over my mind; it was M. Bergson. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Life is a 'creation,' but it is also, as M. Bergson labours to prove, an 'evolution.' Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics He had been discussing more to himself than to me the merits of Professor James and Monsieur Bergson, and had inquired was I aware of the nature of the Pragmatic Sanction. Here are Ladies The attitude of Bergson in this matter is much more consistent than that of James. The Complex Vision The "élan vital" of Bergson and the theory of Joad are modern reiterations of this conception. The Necessity of Atheism There are, in M. Bergson's theory, a few assertions which surprise us a little, like everything which runs counter to old habits. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps As Bergson is careful to tell us, the shape and extent of self-consciousness are determined by our relation to a world which acts upon us and upon which we act. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics "From this survival of the past," says Bergson, "it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice." A Preface to Politics Bergson is perfectly right when he asserts that "the consciousness which we have of our own self" introduces us "to the interior of a reality, on the model of which we must represent other realities." The Complex Vision Bergson says in "Creative Evolution," that "an intelligence which reflects is one that originally had a surplus of energy to spend, over and above practically useful efforts." The Joyful Heart M. Bergson places memory in planes of consciousness far removed from action, and perception he places in the very object we perceive. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Meanwhile," said George learnedly, "Bergson may be of some assistance to you. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17 It is this that Bergson means when he tells us that a philosopher's intuition always outlasts his system. A Preface to Politics Bergson's monism, as we have seen, resolves itself into a duality which may be defined as conscious activity confronted by unconscious inertness. The Complex Vision Bergson seems always to have been more than half-convinced of the truth of spiritualism. The Last Harvest But what seems to me to require proof is the function M. Bergson is led to attribute to the sensory nerves. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps I believe that in this doctrine I am in full accord with Bergson, though he uses ‘time’ for the fundamental fact which I call the ‘passage of nature.’ The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 I look and I think I see," writes Bergson, "I listen and I think I hear, I examine myself and I think I am reading the very depths of my heart.... A Preface to Politics Thus while Bergson finds his ultimate axiomatic "data" in philosophical abstractions, we find our ultimate axiomatic "data" in the realities of human experiences. The Complex Vision "To a large extent," Bergson says, "thought is independent of the brain." The Last Harvest We believe, with M. Bergson, that it is absolutely correct to see in action the end and the raison d'être of our intelligence and our sensibility. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Bergson's "L'Evolution cr�atrice" is one of the latest attempts to grapple with it, and those who in early India personified fire as the Mover were his legitimate predecessors. Nature Mysticism As Mr. Balfour says, "M. Bergson's 'Evolution Créatrice' is not merely a philosophical treatise, it has all the charm and all the audacities of a work of art, and as such defies adequate reproduction." The Breath of Life Bergson seeks to interpret human life in terms of the universe. The Complex Vision I am trying again to read Bergson's "Creative Evolution," with poor success. The Last Harvest I therefore own that I cannot follow M. Bergson in his deduction. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Bergson emphasises the category of Becoming, and, if to be classed at all, is a dualist. Nature Mysticism There is another way out of the difficulty that besets our rational faculties in their efforts to solve this question, and that is the audacious way of Henri Bergson in his "Creative Evolution." The Breath of Life When in such a dilemma one turns to the vitalistic and pragmatic speculations of a Bergson or a William James there is an almost more hopeless revulsion. The Complex Vision Bergson's work now seems to me a mixture of two things that won't mix—metaphysics and natural science. The Last Harvest The criticisms I have just pointed out to you, only too briefly, are to be found in several philosophers, confusedly in Berkeley, and with more precision in M. Bergson's book on Matière et Mémoire. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Bergson has done much to restore to intuition the rights which were being filched or wrenched from it. Nature Mysticism Our intellect, Bergson says, cannot grasp the true nature of life, nor the meaning of the evolutionary movement. The Breath of Life What we call fatalism," M. Bergson says, "is only the revenge of nature on man's will when the mind puts too much strain upon the flesh or acts as if it did not exist. Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air Bergson himself by no means dispenses with the logical faculty. The Last Harvest It is interesting to see how M. Bergson gets out of the difficulty which he himself raised. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps From the days of Huxley and Haeckel we have passed over to the days of Bergson and Sir Oliver Lodge. Among Famous Books M. Bergson's mind is occupied with the thought of the primal push or impulsion of matter which travels through it as the force in the wave traverses the water. The Breath of Life Just so M. Bergson's proper achievement begins where his science ends, and his philosophy lies entirely beyond the horizon of possible discoveries or empirical probabilities. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Bergson's conception of two currents—an upward current of spirit and a downward current of matter—meeting and uniting at a definite time and place and producing life, is extremely fanciful. The Last Harvest The spiritualist asserts the complete independence of the representation in relation to cerebral movement; the materialist places it after, the parallelist by the side of, the cerebral movement; M. Bergson puts it in front. The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Many may think that in this message it is poetry to which M. Bergson is giving expression. The Meaning of the War Life & Matter in Conflict Like M. Bergson, he sees in life some tendency or impetus which arose in matter at a definite time and place, "and which has continued to interact with and incarnate itself in matter ever since." The Breath of Life M. Bergson, however, is on the side of Spencer. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Science, as Professor Bergson has told us, has for its initial aim the making of tools for life. Ancient Art and Ritual Bergson's Creative Evolution deals with the subject, but the value of this book is greater in other directions. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy "But whatever be the price of victory," so writes M. Bergson to me, "it will not have been too dearly bought if humanity is finally delivered from the nightmare which weighs on it." The Meaning of the War Life & Matter in Conflict But this is not science, of course, because it is not verifiable; it is practically the philosophy of Bergson. The Breath of Life The universal mind, for M. Bergson, is in process of actual transformation. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion He is by nature what Professor Bergson calls “distrait,” aloof, absent-minded, intent only, or mainly, on contemplation. Ancient Art and Ritual Bergson seems to me to be greatly indebted to Schopenhauer. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy "Time," says Bergson, "is a continuous stream, a present that endures." Preaching and Paganism Professor Moore is not a bald mechanist or materialist like Professor Loeb, or Ernst Haeckel, nor is he an idealist or spiritualist, like Henri Bergson or Sir Oliver Lodge. The Breath of Life It would be knowledge of reality in M. Bergson's sense. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Professor Bergson to the contrary notwithstanding, you can not laugh with your intellect alone. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 Edward Carpenter, in his Art of Creation, has worked out a similar point of view independently of Bergson. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy Essentially, then, James, Bergson and Croce appeal from intellect to feeling. Preaching and Paganism Evolution is creative, whether it works in matter—as Bergson describes, or whether its path lies up through electrons and atoms and molecules, as Professor Moore describes. The Breath of Life The most representative and remarkable of living philosophers is M. Henri Bergson. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion What Bergson has so brilliantly proven by patient and exhaustive processes of science, Judge Troward arrived at by intuition, and postulated as the basis of his argument, which he proceeded to develop by deductive reasoning. The Law and the Word Jane could juggle Plato, Bergson and William James, with one hand tied behind her. The Real Adventure This is as old as Pythagoras and as new as Bergson and Croce; it assumes that the concept of justice is man-made, produced and to be altered by expediences and practicalities, always in flux. Preaching and Paganism This is getting very near to the old teleological conception, as it is also near to that of Henri Bergson and Sir Oliver Lodge. The Breath of Life The accuracy or the hollowness of M. Bergson's doctrine, according as we take it for literary psychology or for natural philosophy, will appear clearly in the following instance. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The very elaborateness and microscopic detail that makes Bergson great is opposed to Judge Troward's method of simplicity. The Law and the Word He is universally regarded as the leader of philosophy in France, a position not in the least shaken by Bergson's brief authority. The Open Secret of Ireland As Kant is the noblest of the moralists, so I suppose William James and, still later, Henri Bergson and Croce are the chief protagonists of unrestrained feeling and naturalistic values in the world of thought. Preaching and Paganism A vastly different and much more stimulating view of life is given by Henri Bergson in his "Creative Evolution." The Breath of Life The modernists think the church is doomed if it turns a deaf ear to the higher criticism or ignores the philosophy of M. Bergson. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The Bergson method of scientific expression was unintelligible to his mind, trained to intuitive reasoning. The Law and the Word They are contemporary with the Pragmatism of James and Schiller, and the Activism of Bergson. Outspoken Essays In the same way Bergson, consistently anti-Socratic and discrediting analytical intellect, insists that whatever unity may be had must come through instinct, not analysis. Preaching and Paganism M. Bergson interprets the phenomena of life in terms of spirit, rather than in terms of matter as does Professor Loeb. The Breath of Life M. Bergson has studied Plotinus and Spinoza; I suspect he has not studied them in vain. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion This is felt by all contemporary writers from Bergson in philosophy to Graham Wallas in politics. Recent Developments in European Thought Of Bergson he said to me, "I hope he is still thinking," and when I questioned him he replied that Bergson's teaching up to this moment "suggests that anything may happen." Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality Bergson says: The unconscious is our historical past. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy As if M. Bergson, or any one else, would dispute these things! The Breath of Life M. Bergson, accordingly, should either tell us that our bodies are going to rise again, or he should not tell us, or give us to understand, that our minds are going to endure. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion As for M. Bergson, I yield to no one in admiration for his brilliancy as a stylist and the happiness of many of his illustrations. Recent Developments in European Thought What is the effort of a Bergson, for example, especially in his work on creative evolution, but an attempt to re-integrate the personal God and eternal consciousness? Tragic Sense Of Life Modern philosophers, of whom William James, Bergson, and Eucken are conspicuous examples, have appreciated the futility of such a task, and have sought other means of solving the problem. Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life In his more sober scientific mood Tyndall would doubtless have rejected M. Bergson's view of life, yet his image of the wave is very Bergsonian. The Breath of Life He too, like M. Bergson, proceeded from learning to intuition, and feigned at every turn to identify himself with what he was describing, especially if this was a philosophical attitude or temper. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion And as to the second point, I would ask whether M. Bergson possesses a clock or a watch, and if he has, how he supposes time is measured on them? Recent Developments in European Thought Much of this new philosophy is a kind of higher obscurantism; the man in the street applauds Bergson and William James because he dislikes science and logic, and values will, courage and sentiment. Cambridge Essays on Education In fact, if we take Bergson’s view-point—which it seems to me is undoubtedly the true one, the thing we call Rome was never anything else but a process of change. A Librarian's Open Shelf Bergson thinks, not without reason, that life on other planets may be quite different from what it is on our own, owing to a difference in chemical and physical conditions. The Breath of Life M. Bergson is at bottom an apologist for very old human prejudices, an apologist for animal illusion. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion At any rate, the anti-intellectualism which M. Bergson and his disciple, Professor Carr, seem to regard as fundamental will have to go, unless different and better grounds can be found for it. Recent Developments in European Thought All the same, you made me once read half a volume of Bergson. Helena Of course there is a great deal to be said in favor of Bergson's general point of view, but to me his reasoning is inconclusive. The "Goldfish" It is here that the materialistic philosophers, such as Professors Moore and Loeb, differ from the spiritualistic philosophers, such as Bergson, Sir Oliver Lodge, Professor Thompson, and others. The Breath of Life M. Bergson would have us believe that mankind is what nature has set her heart on and the best she can do, for whose sake she has been long making very special efforts. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion All would agree in rejecting Bergson's view of evolution—that in evolution there is change, but nothing which changes. Recent Developments in European Thought In fact, both the expression and the perception of humor are social acts, as may be seen from the development of this subject by the philosopher Bergson in his brilliant essay On Laughter. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Now why try to talk about Bergson's theories if you have not the most elementary knowledge of philosophy or metaphysics? The "Goldfish" Bergson sets forth his views of evolution in terms of literature and philosophy. The Breath of Life The correctness of such an intuition, however, rests on a circumstance which M. Bergson does not notice, because his psychology is literary and not scientific. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion If this instance be taken as typical of the process of evolution in general, then the course of evolution is not, so to speak, linear or rectilinear, but—to use M. Bergson's word—'dispersive'. Recent Developments in European Thought Bergson, too, the philosopher of creative evolution, has considered laughter to the extent of an entire volume. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Bergson is preeminently the prophet of the higher space concept. The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition It has led Sir Oliver Lodge to conceive of life as a distinct entity, existing independent of matter, and it is this conception that gives the key to Henri Bergson's wonderful book, "Creative Evolution." The Breath of Life But M. Bergson evidently regards Plato or Kant as persons who did or did not prepare the way for some Bergsonian insight. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion It is needless to dwell upon the affinity between this temper of adventure in poetry and the teaching of Bergson. Recent Developments in European Thought Laughter," says M. Bergson, "is above all a corrective, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations Some disciple of Bergson interrupts: 'Ah, this whereof you speak is a spiritual thing and as such is given by the intuition. The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Bergson deifies or spiritualizes life as a psychic, creative principle, and makes matter its instrument or vehicle. The Breath of Life But M. Bergson is instinctively a mystic, and his philosophy deliberately discredits the existence of anything except in immediacy, that is, as an experience of the heart. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The philosopher who in our generation has acquired the European vogue most comparable to that of Spencer is Bergson. Recent Developments in European Thought Bergson remands us to intuition or sensational experience for the understanding of how life makes itself go, 252. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy In order to grasp reality we must use the faculty of contact or immediate feeling, or, as Bergson calls it, intuition. Mysticism in English Literature It is from this point of view that the philosophy of Henri Bergson, based so largely as it is upon scientific material, has been so bitterly assailed from the scientific camp. The Breath of Life Not so M. Bergson; he is not so simple as to invoke the malicious criticism of knowledge in order to go on thinking rationalistically. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Now Bergson has dealt some of the shrewdest blows at Spencer's system, but he does not set out to construct a rival system of his own. Recent Developments in European Thought Bergson's own text, felicitous as it is, is too intricate for quotation, so I must use my own inferior words in explaining what I mean by saying this. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The following remarks are much indebted to a valuable article on Bergson and the Mystics, by Evelyn Underhill, in the English Review, Feb. Mysticism in English Literature Bergson says the intellect is characterized by a natural inability to understand life. The Breath of Life Such at least is the notion which the reader gathers from the prevailing character of M. Bergson's words; but I am not sure that it would be his ultimate conclusion. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion And Bergson's Creative Evolution embodied a conception of life and of the world profoundly congenial to the artistic and poetic temper of his time. Recent Developments in European Thought Paradoxical effect! as Bergson well remarks, if our intellectual life were not practical but destined to reveal the inner natures. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Our knowledge of things," says Bergson, "derives its form from our bodily functions and lower needs. Mysticism in English Literature This is the view Henri Bergson exploits in his "Creative Evolution." The Breath of Life M. Bergson's philosophy itself is a confession of a certain mystical rebellion and atavism in the contemporary mind. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Bergson has compared the play of reason upon phenomena to the action of a cinematograph machine which reproduces the effect of motion by flashing upon the screen a correlated series of fixed images. Four-Dimensional Vistas As a french disciple of his well expresses it: 'Bergson claims of us first of all a certain inner catastrophe, and not every one is capable of such a logical revolution. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy "Would not the whole of history," asks Bergson, "be contained in a very short time for a consciousness at a higher degree of tension than our own?" Mysticism in English Literature Henri Bergson, in his "Creative Evolution," expounds a similar philosophy of life. The Breath of Life William James, rather too generously, attributed this vision to M. Bergson, and regarded him in consequence as a philosopher of the first rank, whose thought was to be one of the turning-points in history. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion As Bergson has so well shown, the reason cuts life into countless cross-sections: a thing must be dead before it can be dissected. Four-Dimensional Vistas This, scant as it is, is all I have to say about Bergson on this occasion—I hope it may send some of you to his original text. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Bergson's theory of rhythm is peculiarly illuminating in this connection. Mysticism in English Literature Bergson's book is a wonderful addition to the literature of science and of philosophy. The Breath of Life M. Bergson's own philosophy is an effort to realise this revulsion, to disintegrate intelligence and stimulate sympathetic experience. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Let us then, in this predicament, consider time not from the standpoint of experiment, but of conscious experience—what Bergson calls "real duration." Four-Dimensional Vistas The resolve to turn the deaf ear is the inner crisis or 'catastrophe' of which M. Bergson's disciple whom I lately quoted spoke. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy She was still reading Bergson, and her brain struggled to make out the sense and rhythm of the sentences across the beating of her heart. The Three Sisters The poet, the dreamer, the mystic, in each of us takes heart at Bergson's beautiful philosophy; it seems like a part of life; it goes so well with living things. The Breath of Life Studied and insinuating as M. Bergson is in his style, he is no less elaborate in his learning. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Great visions of philosophy: varieties of speculative thought in the West from the Greeks to Bergson. U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1977 July - December Professor Henri Bergson is a young man, comparatively, as influential philosophers go, having been born at Paris in 1859. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy She had her sewing in her lap and her book, Bergson's Évolution créatrice propped open before her on the table. The Three Sisters Balfour, Arthur James, on Bergson's "Evolution Créatrice," 15.Bees, the spirit of the hive, 82.Benton, The Breath of Life The embarrassment that qualifies M. Bergson's attainments in mathematics and physics has another and more personal source. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion There may be some clinkers Now "creeping" to light, Tremendous deep thinkers Or high in their flight; There may be diffusers Of air that is hot; There may be a Bergson, Again there may not. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 12, 1917 If anything can make hard things easy to follow, it is a style like Bergson's. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy No one has, as it appears to me, placed such emphasis upon this as has Henri Bergson. The Trade Union Woman So far we've take up Bergson, socialism, psychology, Rabindranath Tagore, the meaning of welfare work, culinary science, the new movements in art — and ever so many more things I can't re- member now. Hermione's Group of Thinkers This side of M. Bergson's philosophy illustrates the worst and most familiar vices of metaphysics. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion In Crazy Ivar's country the grass was short and gray, the draws deeper than they were in the Bergsons' neighborhood, and the land was all broken up into hillocks and clay ridges. O Pioneers! Meanwhile you see what Professor Bergson means by insisting that the function of the intellect is practical rather than theoretical. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Bergson bids us see life on the move, ever changing, growing, evolving, a creation new every moment. The Trade Union Woman He experienced an immense, driving push upon what Bergson has called the élan vital of his being. The Centaur We must remember that these selections, according to M. Bergson, are not apperceptions merely. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The first of these fruitless summers the Bergson boys bore courageously. O Pioneers! I have to confess that Bergson's originality is so profuse that many of his ideas baffle me entirely. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Look here, James—this isn't Hegel—and it isn't Lotze—and it isn't Bergson—it's life. The Coryston Family A Novel I go to lectures at the Sorbonne by Bergson and Jules Lemaître, historical concerts, classical matinées, and I take notes and notes…. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House M. Bergson is afraid of space, of mathematics, of necessity, and of eternity; he is afraid of the intellect and the possible discoveries of science; he is afraid of nothingness and death. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion A few tough zenias and marigolds and a row of scarlet sage bore witness to the buckets of water that Mrs. Bergson had carried there after sundown, against the prohibition of her sons. O Pioneers! Bergson's resources in the way of erudition are remarkable, and in the way of expression they are simply phenomenal. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy As Bergson says, the brain is the organ of forgetfulness as well as of memory. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform Their gods of thought, Bergson and William James, were tottering. Jean-Christophe Journey's End Why, for instance, has M. Bergson such a horror of mechanical physics? Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion His mind traveled ahead to the stile, which he always thought of as haunted by Emil Bergson. O Pioneers! So far as the outward facts go, Bergson's career has then been commonplace to the utmost. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy We are elaborately clothed and can discuss Bergson's views or D. H. Lawrence's last story. The Mind in the Making The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform I said this to Henri Bergson last year in Paris and his reply was significant as coming from a philosopher. Towards the Great Peace An artist in his workmanship, M. Bergson is not an artist in his allegiance; he has no respect for what is merely ideal. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion At the wheatfield corner, where the orchard hedge ended and the path led across the pasture to the Bergsons', Frank stopped. O Pioneers! Professor Bergson thus inverts the traditional platonic doctrine absolutely. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Yet one may, I imagine, assert with Bergson that the practical intelligence is most closely adapted to spatial qualities. Public Opinion We can never forget that Bergson has avowed that "the mind of man, by its very nature, is incapable of apprehending reality." Towards the Great Peace M. Bergson never reviews his facts in order to understand them, but only if possible to discredit others who may have fancied they understood. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The woman lying in the shadow might so easily be one of the Bergsons' farm-girls.... O Pioneers! Indeed, M. Bergson might seem to be easily refutable out of his own mouth. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy In his book Le Rire, Bergson has expressed the view that comedy is explicitly falsifying and unsympathetic. The Principles of Aesthetics If Bergson is right this suspicion is, in many cases, all too well founded: the discussion of pseudo-problems is not worth while. The Misuse of Mind In spite, then, of M. Bergson's learning as a naturalist and his eye for the facts—things Aristotle also possessed—he is like Aristotle profoundly out of sympathy with nature. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Bergson went over in his mind the things that had held him back. O Pioneers! To gain insight into all that moving life, Bergson is right in turning us away from conception and towards perception. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Hence, contrary to the theory of Bergson, the spontaneous as well as the mechanical and rigid may be comical. The Principles of Aesthetics What Bergson does in the description of the facts which he offers is to isolate each of these tendencies making them into two separate distinct abstractions, one called matter and the other mind. The Misuse of Mind M. Bergson is alienated from nature by something quite different; he is the adept of a very modern, very subtle, and very arbitrary art, that of literary psychology. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Bergson had spent his first five years on the Divide getting into debt, and the last six getting out. O Pioneers! Few men are as qualified by their intellectual gifts to reap the harvests that seem certain to any one who, like Fechner and Bergson, will leave the thinner for the thicker path. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Professor Bergson has himself expressed his approval of the general form of treatment, and I am indebted to him for information on a number of points. Bergson and His Philosophy For Bergson a mind is nothing but a synthesis of objects. The Misuse of Mind Just so M. Bergson's achievements in psychological fiction, to be so brilliantly executed as they are, required all his learning. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Mrs. Bergson was a fair-skinned, corpulent woman, heavy and placid like her son, Oscar, but there was something comfortable about her; perhaps it was her own love of comfort. O Pioneers! It is for that that I have brought in Fechner and Bergson, and descriptive psychology and religious experiences, and have ventured even to hint at psychical research and other wild beasts of the philosophic desert. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It is designed to serve as an introduction to Bergson's philosophy for those who are making their first approach to it, and as such it can be commended. Bergson and His Philosophy If this saving of waste effort is a fault, then Bergson must plead guilty. The Misuse of Mind Now M. Bergson's psychological fictions, being drawn from what is rudimentary in man, have a better chance of being literally true beyond man. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion When anything comes up he always says, 'I wonder what the Bergsons are going to do about that? O Pioneers! Mr. Peirce's views, tho reached so differently, are altogether congruous with Bergson's. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy But it is the opportunity also of the serious and competent thinker, and it is fortunate for the world that one of M. Bergson's quality is forthcoming. Bergson and His Philosophy Now according to Bergson the attitude of mind required for explaining the facts conflicts with that which is required for knowing them. The Misuse of Mind But philosophers are either revolutionists or apologists, and some of them, like M. Bergson, are revolutionists in the interests of apologetics. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion When the Bergsons drove over the hill, Ivar was sitting in the doorway of his house, reading the Norwegian Bible. O Pioneers! They lead, however, into that region of panpsychic and ontologic speculation of which Professors Bergson and Strong have lately enlarged the literature in so able and interesting a way. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It is the more impressive inasmuch as Bergson cannot be said to be an easy author. Bergson and His Philosophy For these two reasons Bergson insists that it is the business of philosophy to reverse the intellectual habit of mind and return to the fullest possible direct knowledge of the fact. The Misuse of Mind At once we should begin to perceive how casual and superficial are those data of introspection which M. Bergson's account reproduces. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion The Bergson boys, certainly, would have been happier with their uncle Otto, in the bakery shop in Chicago. O Pioneers! Professor Bergson, believing as he does in a heraclitean 'devenir réel,' ought, if I rightly understand him, positively to deny that in the actual world the logical axioms hold good without qualification. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Already, in his lifetime, a number of terms stamped with the impress of Bergson's thought have passed into international currency. Bergson and His Philosophy For Bergson the problem is to explain, not how we increase our direct knowledge, but how we limit it: not how we remember, but how we forget. The Misuse of Mind I confess I am one of these, and I am not inclined, even if I were able, to reproduce M. Bergson's sentiments as he feels them. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Any one thereabouts would have told you that this was one of the richest farms on the Divide, and that the farmer was a woman, Alexandra Bergson. O Pioneers! I can give no further account of Mr. Peirce's ideas in this note, but I earnestly advise all students of Bergson to compare them with those of the french philosopher. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It is not, however, under the figure of the etcher's art or of the process of the mint that we can fully represent Bergson's resources of style. Bergson and His Philosophy Bergson would not think of denying that this intellectual method, in which facts are used as material for abstraction, is of the utmost practical use for explaining facts and so enabling us to control them. The Misuse of Mind The one that succeeds in ruling that movement will live on; the other, I suppose, will die, although M. Bergson may not like that painful word. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion She looked like her grandmother Bergson, and had her comfortable and comfort-loving nature. O Pioneers! The lucidity of Bergson's way of putting things is what all readers are first struck by. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy For the student as yet unpractised in philosophical reflection, Bergson's skill and clarity of statement, his fertility in illustration, his frequent and picturesque use of analogy may be a pitfall. Bergson and His Philosophy This, indeed, is just what Bergson thinks really does happen. The Misuse of Mind M. Bergson's system would hardly be more speculative if it entertained this possibility, and it would seem more honest. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Frank and Lou Bergson had very similar ideas, and they were two of the political agitators of the county. O Pioneers! M. Bergson, if I am rightly informed, came into philosophy through the gateway of mathematics. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy If we are able to retain our independence of judgment we are bound sooner or later, in spite of Bergson's persuasiveness, to have our misgivings. Bergson and His Philosophy The form which belongs to facts but not to abstractions Bergson calls "duration." The Misuse of Mind There is, however, one point of real difference, at least initially, between the idealism of M. Bergson and that of his predecessors. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion As Angelique, flushed and excited, with flour on her hands, stopped to smile at the baby, Emil Bergson rode up to the kitchen door on his mare and dismounted. O Pioneers! So far as their value-creating function goes, it would thus appear that concepts connect themselves more with our active than with our theoretic life, so here again Bergson's formulation seems unobjectionable. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy The insistence on intuition is doubtless due, at bottom, to Bergson's admiration for the activity in the creative artist. Bergson and His Philosophy Even Bergson, however, does not get away from the distinction between appearance and reality. The Misuse of Mind Take, for example, what is M. Bergson's starting-point, his somewhat dazzling doctrine that to be is to last, or rather to feel oneself endure. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion While the church was filling, Emil Bergson waited outside, watching the wagons and buggies drive up the hill. O Pioneers! But open Bergson, and new horizons loom on every page you read. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy As to his treatment of Change, it reveals Bergson in one of his happiest moods. Bergson and His Philosophy Perceived familiarity depends upon memory but memory, according to Bergson, does not work by preserving a series of repetitions for future reference. The Misuse of Mind Some reader of M. Bergson might say to himself: All this is ingenious introspection and divination; grant that it is true, and how does that lead to a new theory of the universe? Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Didn't she have all summer before her to love Emil Bergson in, without taking such chances? O Pioneers! For our present purpose, then, the essential contribution of Bergson to philosophy is his criticism of intellectualism. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Pure Change is not only unthinkable—that perhaps Bergson would allow—but it is something which cannot be experienced. Bergson and His Philosophy It was in this spirit that the writer undertook the study of Bergson. The Misuse of Mind M. Bergson tells us he has solved a difficulty that seemed hopeless by avoiding a fallacy common to idealism and realism. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Late in the afternoon of a brilliant October day, Alexandra Bergson, dressed in a black suit and traveling-hat, alighted at the Burlington depot in Lincoln. O Pioneers! Thus much of M. Bergson's philosophy is sufficient for my purpose in these lectures, so here I will stop, leaving unnoticed all its other constituent features, original and interesting tho they be. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy It is not my purpose, however, to usurp the function of the author of this useful handbook to Bergson. Bergson and His Philosophy The apparent unsatisfactoriness of the first reading arose from a failure to realize how entirely new and unfamiliar the point of view is from which Bergson approaches metaphysical speculation. The Misuse of Mind It has been said that M. Bergson's system precludes ethics: I cannot think that observation just. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Mrs. Bergson must have looked just like this when she was a little girl. O Pioneers! But I hoped ever for a revised intellectualist way round the difficulty, and it was only after reading Bergson that I saw that to continue using the intellectualist method was itself the fault. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Bergson now settled again in Paris, and after teaching for some months at the Municipal College, known as the College Rollin, he received an appointment at the Lycee Henri-Quatre, where he remained for eight years. Bergson and His Philosophy And yet this is very much the position which Bergson takes up. The Misuse of Mind Like other terrified idealisms, the system of M. Bergson has neither good sense, nor rigour, nor candour, nor solidity. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Late one June afternoon Alexandra Bergson was driving along one of the many roads that led through the rich French farming country to the big church. O Pioneers! Let a lump of sugar melt in a glass, to use one of M. Bergson's instances. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy Since the appearance of this book, Bergson's popularity has increased enormously, not only in academic circles, but among the general reading public. Bergson and His Philosophy When one begins to question this assumption it begins to appear just as arbitrary as the contrary standpoint adopted by Bergson. The Misuse of Mind Yet this is what M. Bergson does in his whole defence of metaphysical vitalism, and especially in the instance of the evolution of eyes by two different methods, which is his palmary argument. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Marie caught Frank's arm and dragged him to the same table, managing to get seats opposite the Bergsons, so that she could hear what they were talking about. O Pioneers! Reality always is, in M. Bergson's phrase, an endosmosis or conflux of the same with the different: they compenetrate and telescope. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy This was an interesting meeting and we find James' impression of Bergson given in his Letters under date of October 4, 1908. Bergson and His Philosophy It is at this knowledge, according to Bergson, that philosophy aims. The Misuse of Mind |
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