Word: bergsonism
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...perhaps more significant intellectual adventures and encounters of individuals. Emerson's lifelong study and veneration of Montaigne is touched upon by Charles Cestre; Maurice Le Breten discusses Henry Adams' tardy discovery of France by way of the Norman churches and Chartres; Jacques Chevalier analyzes the intellectual affinity between Henri Bergson and William James. Bergson himself, in a graceful comment on Chevalier's essay, records his personal memories of James, whose portrait hangs before him as he writes...
...Paradoxical though it be," says Dr. Roback, "most of the major Jewish philosophers of the present day are not willing to own up to any Jewish influence." Henri Bergson stoutly denied that either his style or his ideas revealed any Semitic traits. Lucien Levy-Bruhl, distinguished anthropologist, thought his work was typically French. But the question, Dr. Roback thought, was not likely to be settled by comparing the work of known authors. He hit on the idea of trying to sort Jews from non-Jews in the writings of unknown persons. Accordingly he persuaded a colleague to let him have...
...Henri Bergson's sense of motion and change led to the élan vital theory which presents a mysterious, inward, upsurging force as the driving influence of evolution. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck propagated a theory that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Most modern students of evolution take little stock in either Bergsonism or Lamarckism. Yet last week Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a view which seemed to flirt with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes...
...socially ambitious, took himself with a seriousness which only success can excuse. His poor health did not prevent his taking his degree and serving his military service. His father wanted him to be a diplomat, but he postponed the issue by dabbling at the Sorbonne. Meeting with Henri Bergson influenced his decision on a literary career...
...distinction between religion, politics, and economics, the nature of economic necessity, and the confusion of ends and means in modern society. In addition to holding the office of master at Balliol for eight years, Dr. Lindsay is an authority on philosophy and government. His books include "The Philosophy of Bergson," "The Nature of Religious Truth," and "Essentials of Democracy...