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Here Bergson distinguished between time as we actually experience it, lived time – which he called ‘real duration’ (durée réelle) – and the mechanistic time of science. This, he argued, is based on a misperception: it consists of superimposing spatial concepts onto time, which then becomes a distorted version of the real thing.
Henri Bergson in 1927. Duration (French: la durée) is a theory of time and consciousness posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson sought to improve upon inadequacies he perceived in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, due, he believed, to Spencer's lack of comprehension of mechanics, which led Bergson to the conclusion that time ...
May 18, 2004 · Time and Free Will has to be seen as an attack on Kant, for whom freedom belongs to a realm outside of space and time. Bergson thinks that Kant has confused space and time in a mixture, with the result that we must conceive human action as determined by natural causality. Bergson offers a twofold response.
Apr 17, 2024 · Subjects Of Study: evolution. memory. time. duration. religion. Henri Bergson (born Oct. 18, 1859, Paris, France—died Jan. 4, 1941, Paris) was a French philosopher, the first to elaborate what came to be called a process philosophy, which rejected static values in favour of values of motion, change, and evolution.
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Dec 2, 2020 · Henri Bergson, a French philosopher, argued that time has two faces: objective time and lived time. He explained how the pandemic has made us aware of the difference between these two faces, and how they are influenced by our memories, anticipations, and agency. He also suggested that la durée is more real and fundamental than objective time.
May 18, 2023 · Bergson uses his conclusions about time to refute determinism by showing that the classical proofs of determinism fallaciously apply spatial thought to consciousness. Bergson’s idea of intuition is a development of his thought on duration.
May 18, 2023 · Living in Time is a book about the philosophical ideas of Henri Bergson (1859–1941), once the most famous philosopher in the world, though now seldom considered, especially not in Anglophone philosophy. This is regrettable, as Bergson is a great philosopher, and this book explains why.
