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Two ways of knowing meet in one bold claim: to grasp reality, we can look from the outside or enter from within.
This introduction to Bergson’s philosophy contrasts analysis, which builds knowledge from symbols and external viewpoints, with intuition, a direct, inner contact with life as it happens. It explains why understanding the absolute requires a different method than ordinary science, and how duration reveals the flow of inner experience that analysis misses.
The text argues that conventional knowledge tends to abstract and stabilize moving reality into fixed ideas. By contrast, intuition seeks to coincide with the object itself, offering a sense of unity that analysis cannot provide. The work also surveys how modern science and philosophy have treated time, change, and being, and why a truly philosophical understanding must move beyond preexisting systems toward a living, evolving mind.- Learn the difference between external observation and internal insight.
- See why duration and becoming challenge the idea that analysis can capture the whole of experience.
- Understand Bergson’s critique of Kantian and Platonic frameworks and the call for a dynamic, intuition-driven philosophy.
- Discover how science and metaphysics relate, conflict, and yet illuminate each other.
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Fils d un immigre juif polonais, Henri Bergson fut normalien, agrege de philosophie en 1881, et mena une brillante carriere d enseignant (lycees Louis-le-Grand et Henri-IV a Paris; maitre de conference a l'ENS en 1897). En 1900, il obtint la chaiL ensemble de son uvre, qui comporte notamment L Evolution creatrice (1907), et Les Deux Sources de la morale et de la religion (1932), s inscrivait contre le formalisme kantien et les differentes formes de positivisme et de scientisme. Il s'appuyait sur les connaissances modernes en psychologie pour definir des voies philosophiques nouvelles.
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