A rigorous exploration of Bergson through the lens of personal realism, and what it means for understanding life, freedom, and truth.
This volume examines how intuition, duration, and personality interlock in human experience, arguing that a living, personal ground underpins change and creativity. It challenges impersonal and purely mechanical theories by defending a moral and spiritual dimension to reality.
The book surveys key topics from Bergson’s ideas of duration, life as a creative impulse, and the role of intuition, to the nature of time, space, and causation. It makes a case for a personal World-Ground and for personality as the fundamental reality in a changing universe. Readers will encounter clear discussions of how freedom relates to consciousness, and how morality, religion, and science can be reconciled within a personal realist framework.
- Clear explanations of Bergson's duration and the elan vital in relation to personal reality
- Discussions of space, time, and the form of experience from a realist perspective
- Arguments for personality as the grounding principle of life, change, and causation
- Critiques of impersonalism and materialism in philosophy of change
Ideal for readers of philosophy seeking a thoughtful alternative to impersonal theories, and for those interested in the intersection of metaphysics, ethics, and religion.