β Scribed by Henri Bergson
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While intelligence treats everything mechanically, instinct proceeds, so to speak, organically. If...we could ask and it could reply, it would give up to us the most intimate secrets of life. -from Chapter II Anticipating not only modern scientific theories of psychology but also those of cosmology, this astonishing book sets out a impressive goal for itself: to reconcile human biology with a theory of consciousness. First published in France in 1907, and translated into English in 1911, this work of wonder was esteemed at the time in scientific circles and in the popular culture alike for its profound explorations of perception and memory and its surprising conclusions about the nature and value of art. Contending that intuition is deeper than intellect and that the real consequence of evolution is a mental freedom to grow, to change, to seek and create novelty, Bergson reinvigorated the theory of evolution by refusing to see it as merely mechanistic. His expansion on Darwin remains one of the most original and important philosophical arguments for a scientific inquiry still under fire today. French philosopher HENRI BERGSON (1859-1941) was born in Paris. Among his works are Matter and Memory (1896), An Introduction to Metaphysics (1903), and The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.
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This test represents the proceedings of a symposium by the Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of life at the University of California, Los Angeles in March, 1993. Six leading evolutionists discuss the creativity of the evolutionary process.
First published in French in 1907, Henri Bergsonβs LβΓ©volution crΓ©atrice is a scintillating and radical work by one of the great French philosophers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This outstanding new translation, the first for over a hundred years, brings one of Bergsonβs most important
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Bergson was an evolutionist, neo-Hereclitian, who thought that change, not being ( *esse* ), was the fundamental truth of reality. He had it backwards: [Being presupposes change](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/51229/2014) (not the converse)! Jacques Maritain was an ex-Bergsonian, Thomist