Creative Evolution
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continental philosophy
- In continental philosophy: Dilthey and Bergson
As he remarked in Creative Evolution (1907): “Anticipated time is not mathematical time…. It coincides with duration, which is not subject to being prolonged or retracted at will. It is no longer something thought but something lived.” In France Bergson’s views made few inroads among more-traditional philosophers, in part…
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discussed in biography
- In Henri Bergson: Philosophical triumphs
L’Évolution créatrice (1907; Creative Evolution), the greatest work of these years and Bergson’s most famous book, reveals him most clearly as a philosopher of process at the same time that it shows the influence of biology upon his thought. In examining the idea of life, Bergson accepted evolution…
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history of philosophy
- In Western philosophy: Bergson, Dewey, and Whitehead
… (1903) and in his masterpiece, Creative Evolution (1907), Bergson distinguished between two profoundly different ways of knowing: the method of analysis, which is characteristic of science, and the method of intuition, a kind of intellectual sympathy through which it is possible to enter into objects and other persons and identify…
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