Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness is Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis, first published in 1889. In it, he tries to dispel the arguments against free will. These arguments, he says, come from a confusion of different ideas of time. Physicists and mathematicians conceive of time as a measurable construct, much like the spatial dimensions. But in human experience, life is perceived as a continuous and unmeasurable flow, rather than as a succession of marked-off states of consciousness--something that can be measured only qualitatively, not quantitatively. And because human personalities express themselves in acts that cannot be predicted, Bergson declares free will to be an observable fact.
French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.
He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented." In 1930, France awarded him the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.
Автор: Henri Bergson Название: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic ISBN: 034176180X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780341761808 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 40690.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Bergson Henri-Louis Название: Laughter / Dreams / The Meaning of the War ISBN: 151542393X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781515423935 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21830.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic (first published in 1900), Henri Bergson develops a theory not of laughter itself, but of how laughter can be provoked. He describes the process of laughter (refusing to give a conceptual definition which would not approach its reality), used in particular by comics and clowns, as caricature of the mechanistic nature of humans (habits, automatic acts, etc.), as one of the two tendencies of life (degradation towards inert matter and mechanism, and continual creation of new forms). However, Bergson warns us that laughter's criterion of what should be laughed at is not a moral criterion and that it can in fact cause serious damage to a person's self-esteem. This essay made his opposition to the Cartesian theory of the animal-machine obvious.
Monty Python co-founder John Cleese recommends Laughter, telling us Bergson says "it's a social sanction because we laugh together as a group in society, and it's a sanction because we're trying to get people to behave flexibly."
This volume also includes the short lectures "Dreams" and "The Meaning of the War," which was delivered as the presidential address to the Acad mie des sciences morales et politiques in December 1914.
French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.
He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented." In 1930, France awarded him the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.
Автор: Bergson Henri-Louis Название: Creative Evolution ISBN: 1515423921 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781515423928 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 16080.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Creative Evolution was published in 1907, and translated into English in 1911. In it, Henri Bergson proposes a version of orthogenesis in place of Charles Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an lan vital, a "vital impetus," that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse.
In Creative Evolution, Bergson also developed concepts of time which significantly influenced modernist writers and thinkers such as Marcel Proust and Thomas Mann. For example, his term "duration" refers to a more individual, subjective experience of time, as opposed to mathematical, objectively measurable "clock time." He suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through intuition.
Discussing the meaning of life, Bergson considers the order of nature and the form of intelligence, including the geometrical tendency of the intellect, and examines mechanisms of thought and illusion. In addition, he presents a critique of the idea of immutability and the concept of nothingness, from Plato and Aristotle through the evolutionism of his contemporaries.
French philosopher Henri-Louis Bergson (1859-1941) was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.
He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented." In 1930, France awarded him the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.
Автор: Henri Bergson Название: Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic ISBN: 1985091275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781985091276 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 6890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: James Burton Название: The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick ISBN: 1350028274 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350028272 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 29560.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick explores the deep affinity between two seemingly quite different thinkers, in their attempts to address the need for salvation in (and from) an era of accelerated mechanization, in which humans' capacity for destroying or subjugating the living has attained a planetary scale.
The philosopher and the science fiction writer come together to meet the contradictory imperatives of a realist outlook-a task which, arguably, philosophy and science fiction could only ever adequately undertake in collaboration. Their respective approaches meet in a focus on the ambiguous status of fictionalizing, or fabulation, as simultaneously one of mechanization's most devastating tools, and the possibility of its undoing.
When they are read together, the complexities and paradoxes thrown up by this ambiguity, with which both Bergson and Dick struggle on their own, open up new ways to navigate ideas of mechanism and mysticism, immanence and transcendence, and the possibility and meaning of salvation. The result is at once an original reading of both thinkers, a new critical theory of the socio-cultural, political and ethical function of fictionalizing, and a case study in the strange affinity, at times the uncanny similarity, between philosophy and science fiction.
Автор: Bergson Henri Название: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion ISBN: 1376213605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781376213607 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11350.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Bergson Henri-Louis Название: Creative Evolution ISBN: 1515423913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781515423911 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Henri Bergson proposes a version of orthogenesis in place of Charles Darwin`s mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an elan vital, a "vital impetus," that can also be understood as humanity`s natural creative impulse.
Автор: Bergson Henri Название: Dreams (Classic Reprint) ISBN: 1330398300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781330398302 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 8800.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Excerpt from Dreams It is impossible to believe that the sub consciousness of every one of us contains nothing but the foul and monstrous speci mens which they dredge up from the mental depths of their neuropathic patients and exhibit with such pride. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Автор: Bergson Henri Название: Mind Energy: Lectures and Essays (1920) ISBN: 1498194710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498194716 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 40400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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