Bergson S Philosophy Of Self Overcoming

Author : Messay Kebede
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030154875

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Bergson’s Philosophy of Self-Overcoming by Messay Kebede Pdf

This book proposes a new reading of Bergsonism based on the admission that time, conceived as duration, stretches instead of passes. This swelling time is full and so excludes the negative. Yet, swelling requires some resistance, but such that it is more of a stimulant than a contrariety. The notion of élan vital fulfills this requirement: it states the immanence of life to matter, thereby deriving the swelling from an internal effort and allowing its conceptualization as self-overcoming. With self-overcoming as the inner dynamics of reality, Bergson dismisses all forms of dualism and reductionist monism because both the absence of negativity and the swelling nature of time posit a creative process yielding a qualitatively diverse world. This graded oneness is how the lower level activates intensification by turning into limitation, making possible higher levels of achievement, in particular through the union of mind and body and the integration of openness and closed sociability.

Author : MESSAY. KEBEDE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3030154890

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BERGSON'S PHILOSOPHY OF SELF-OVERCOMING by MESSAY. KEBEDE Pdf

Author : Keith Ansell Pearson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350043978

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Bergson by Keith Ansell Pearson Pdf

A thought-provoking contribution to the renaissance of interest in Bergson, this study brings him to a new generation of readers. Ansell-Pearson contends that there is a Bergsonian revolution, an upheaval in philosophy comparable in significance to those that we are more familiar with, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, that make up our intellectual modernity. The focus of the text is on Bergson's conception of philosophy as the discipline that seeks to 'think beyond the human condition'. Not that we are caught up in an existential predicament when the appeal is made to think beyond the human condition; rather that restricting philosophy to the human condition fails to appreciate the extent to which we are not simply creatures of habit and automatism, but also organisms involved in a creative evolution of becoming. Ansell-Pearson introduces the work of Bergson and core aspects of his innovative modes of thinking; examines his interest in Epicureanism; explores his interest in the self and in time and memory; presents Bergson on ethics and on religion, and illuminates Bergson on the art of life.

Author : Alexandre Lefebvre
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804786454

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Human Rights as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre Pdf

The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially on his late masterpiece, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion—from which Alexandre Lefebvre develops an original approach to human rights. We tend to think of human rights as the urgent international project of protecting all people everywhere from harm. Bergson shows us that human rights can also serve as a medium of personal transformation and self-care. For Bergson, the main purpose of human rights is to initiate all human beings into love. Forging connections between human rights scholarship and philosophy as self-care, Lefebvre uses human rights to channel the whole of Bergson's philosophy.

Author : Andreas Vrahimis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030807559

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Bergsonism and the History of Analytic Philosophy by Andreas Vrahimis Pdf

During the first quarter of the twentieth century, the French philosopher Henri Bergson became an international celebrity, profoundly influencing contemporary intellectual and artistic currents. While Bergsonism was fashionable, L. Susan Stebbing, Bertrand Russell, Moritz Schlick, and Rudolf Carnap launched different critical attacks against some of Bergson’s views. This book examines this series of critical responses to Bergsonism early in the history of analytic philosophy. Analytic criticisms of Bergsonism were influenced by William James, who saw Bergson as an ‘anti-intellectualist’ ally of American Pragmatism, and Max Scheler, who saw him as a prophet of Lebensphilosophie. Some of the main analytic objections to Bergson are answered in the work of Karin Costelloe-Stephen. Analytic anti-Bergsonism accompanied the earlier refutations of idealism by Russell and Moore, and later influenced the Vienna Circle’s critique of metaphysics. It eventually contributed to the formation of the view that ‘analytic’ philosophy is divided from its ‘continental’ counterpart.

Author : Adam Lovasz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793640826

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Updating Bergson by Adam Lovasz Pdf

Over the past few decades, there has been a renewal of scholarly interest in the work of Henri Bergson (1859–1941). At once a commentary and a stark re-evaluation of Bergson’s philosophy, Updating Bergson: A Philosophy of the Enduring Present argues that time should be thought of as a hierarchy of simultaneous durations, the shifting reality of which can be revealed by the philosophical method of intuition. A duration is a perpetually dynamic flow situated in the now. Put simply, for Bergson, change is the substance of things. Nothing exists apart from alteration. Adam Lovasz analyzes Bergson’s philosophy of time, encompassing the three basic types of duration—material, organic, and subjective—and also touches on themes such as relativity, evolution, the problem of materialism and idealism, and the topic of free will. Lovasz connects key questions addressed by Bergson to contemporary scientific debates and paradigms. Shedding new light on the various aspects of Bergson's philosophy, this book is both a provocation and an invitation to think in terms of the enduring present, rather than committing ourselves to a dead past or an absent future.

Author : Alexandre Lefebvre,Nils F. Schott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1108431542

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Interpreting Bergson by Alexandre Lefebvre,Nils F. Schott Pdf

Bergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy, including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of life, aesthetics, ethics, social and political thought, and religion. The essays explore Bergson's influence on a number of different fields, and also extend his thought to pressing issues of our time, including philosophy as a way of life, inclusion and exclusion in politics, ecology, the philosophy of race and discrimination, and religion and its enduring appeal. The volume will be valuable for all who are interested in this important thinker and his continuing relevance.

Author : Herbert Wildon Carr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:70103174

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Henri Bergson: the Philosophy of Change by Herbert Wildon Carr Pdf

Author : G. William Barnard
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781438439594

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Living Consciousness by G. William Barnard Pdf

Winner of the 2012 Godbey Authors' Awards presented by the Godbey Lecture Series in Southern Methodist University's Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences Living Consciousness examines the brilliant, but now largely ignored, insights of French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941). Presenting a detailed and accessible analysis of Bergson's thought, G. William Barnard highlights how Bergson's understanding of the nature of consciousness and, in particular, its relationship to the physical world remain strikingly relevant to numerous contemporary fields. These range from quantum physics and process thought to philosophy of mind, depth psychology, transpersonal theory, and religious studies. Bergson's notion of consciousness as a ceaselessly dynamic, inherently temporal substance of reality itself provides a vision that can function as a persuasive alternative to mechanistic and reductionistic understandings of consciousness and reality. Throughout the work, Barnard offers "ruminations" or neo-Bergsonian responses to a series of vitally important questions such as: What does it mean to live consciously, authentically, and attuned to our inner depths? Is there a philosophically sophisticated way to claim that the survival of consciousness after physical death is not only possible but likely?

Author : John Alexander Gunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:$B286244

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Bergson and His Philosophy by John Alexander Gunn Pdf

Author : Gunn John Alexander
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318768276

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Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn John Alexander Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Herbert Wildon Carr
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1290710570

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Henri Bergson; the Philosophy of Change by Herbert Wildon Carr Pdf

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Adam Lovasz
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1793640815

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Updating Bergson by Adam Lovasz Pdf

This book argues for an actualist and presentist reading of Bergson's philosophy of time. Instead of the past or future, what matters is the self-realization of diverse durations. Through both philosophical and interdisciplinary means, Adam Lovasz actualizes Bergson's work and brings it into dialogue with contemporary scientific debates.

Author : Algot Ruhe,Nancy Margaret Paul
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1456592289

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Henri Bergson by Algot Ruhe,Nancy Margaret Paul Pdf

Henri Bergson An Account of His Life And Philosophy by Algot Ruhe and Nancy Margaret Paul

Author : M. Kelly
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1349300454

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Bergson and Phenomenology by M. Kelly Pdf

Examining the revival of Bergsonism for phenomenology, leading scholars of both areas inaugurate a dialogue long overdue. By assessing phenomenology's readings of Bergson and Bergsonian challenges to phenomenological methods, the essays in this volume explore anew the issues of central concern in contemporary continental philosophy.