Word: bergsonism
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...Bergson and his Philosophy," Professor Hocking, Emerson...
...Bergson and his Philosophy," Professor Hocking, Emerson...
Although Dr. Schiller has declared that most of the philosophical notables are still in the "opposing camp", that of intellectualism, pragmatism has enlisted many distinguished adherents, notably Professor Bergson in France and Giovanni Papini in Italy...
...announce the death of the gods, the birth of supermen and the doctrine, "live dangerously." He was last of the Romantics. And so to contemporary Europeans, who, while not Romantics, are expressing a fresh revolt against materialism as left by Spencer and his French equivalents, the Positivists. Henri Bergson (1859-) has lectured at the College de France since 1900. He is the exponent of "creative evolution," having tried to show that consciousness is (in principle) coextensive with life. He has argued that intellection is not the highest form of consciousness, since it is but a nebula surrounded by dim intuitions...
...apparently, in a matter which assumes to settle the question ex-cathedra, but in a way to present the vital elements of the subject. The report says: "The course should present the philosophy of Plato, that of Aristotle, of the Stoics, of Kant, of one of the Moderns, say Bergson, and possibly one or two others." Though the committee does not say so, in presenting this demand it is echoing the ideas of Professor William James, who with his philosophy is surely to be included in the "one or two others." No philosopher of modern times was more keenly aware...