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  2. Creative Evolution. (book) Creative Evolution ( French: L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book proposed a version of orthogenesis in place of Darwin 's mechanism of natural selection, suggesting that evolution is motivated by the élan vital, a "vital ...

  3. May 18, 2004 · In Creative Evolution, Bergson starts out by criticizing mechanism as it applies to the concepts of life and evolution. The mechanistic approach would preclude the possibility of any real change or creativity, as each development would be potentially contained in the preceding ones.

  4. direction of the intellect, bringing it to a state of extreme precision. In Creative Evolution Bergson explains the fundamental inability of our intellect to comprehend the real nature of evolution with reference to the intellect's place in evolution.

  5. Feb 6, 1998 · by Henri Bergson (Author) 100. See all formats and editions. The most famous and influential work of distinguished French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941), Creative Evolution features the fullest expression of the philosopher's ideas about the problem of existence, propounding a theory of evolution completely distinct from these of ...

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  6. Aug 1, 2008 · You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Creative Evolution Author: Henri Bergson Translator: Arthur Mitchell Release Date: August 1, 2008 [EBook #26163] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT ...

  7. A work of great rigour and imaginative richness that contributed to Bergson winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927, Creative Evolution played an important and controversial role in...

  8. Creative Evolution. Henri Bergson. 4.09. 1,303 ratings87 reviews. While intelligence treats everything mechanically, instinct proceeds, so to speak, organically.

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