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The Bergsonian Philosophy of Intelligence
essay on Bergson and examination of his concepts of the evolution of intelligence, translation from Spanish, found on internet. unknown book, no. of pages.
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Published January 1, 2014
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March 1, 2022
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150519: have now read 591 philosophy (now in 2022, 654), 54 bergson. remain enthralled by his concepts, in fact apply the ideas of ‘duration’ and ‘multiplicity’ all the time. am now, among other projects, trying to read bergson’s work in original french... (later decision: transitions are fine...)
271018: this is not a book but an internet resource i somehow found, so no pages but i do not imagine it is more than thirty thousand words. this is a five. if you are interested in philosophy, if you read philosophy, if you do not mind translation on translation, if you really love the ways explored by bergson. so maybe it is a five just for me...
this is an explication of the entirety of bergson’s thought, from his first work (in english translation known as ‘time and free will’) through his major second work (‘matter and memory’) to his final masterpiece (‘creative evolution’). she works from either original texts or Spanish translations, she knows about ninety years since philosophy as she writes in 2014, she is lucid, she is critical, she recounts the background of his philosophy of intelligence’ in great depth, touching on all his major themes and how they lead his thought: quantity and quality, space and time, intellect and intuition, knowing from outside, feeling from within, and so on... she focuses on the evolutionary rise of intelligence and how it is cut from the same cloth as instinct, how neither ultimately leads to complete human living in the world. she shows that bergson believes in close sensory perception first, though in some other philosophies (of course not his...) this sometimes leads to confused intellectual conceptions, in dualism, in dogma... and how, for example, kant has the wrong way round a priori and possibilities of knowledge... (the wrong order, but i do not fully understand)...
i am not a philosopher of any particular sort though i have read mostly continental, some indic, some japanese, some chinese, and so my interests drift according to curiosity. i once read Bergsonism by deleuze but did not get it. i read other philosophy. i came back through mereau-ponty, reread it, read more bersgon and deleuze and now several years later i will read ‘virtually’ anything by or on bergson. he has become great resource, i can see his ideas everywhere acknowledged or not, maybe interpret him in japanese philosophy etc. i love bergson’s thoughts. i am pleased to read much more contemporary work on his ideas. i like his valorization of intuition and sense of time and memory and matter and spirit...
i cannot pretend to intellectually understand or intuitively perceive all bergson’s thoughts, but as more artist than professional philosopher, this lack is more inspiring than frustrating. i have read much philosophy (570), much bergson (52), but i do not argue, i do not claim, i do not promote, i simply enjoy entertaining these thoughts... i really enjoyed this virtual text...
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Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
Matter and Memory
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson: Key Writings
Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life
Bergsonism
Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition
Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception
Henri Bergson
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson
The Bergsonian Philosophy of Intelligence
Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel
Morality in Evolution: The Moral Philosophy of Henri Bergson
The Crisis in Modernism: Bergson and the Vitalist Controversy
The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick
150519: have now read 591 philosophy (now in 2022, 654), 54 bergson. remain enthralled by his concepts, in fact apply the ideas of ‘duration’ and ‘multiplicity’ all the time. am now, among other projects, trying to read bergson’s work in original french... (later decision: transitions are fine...)
271018: this is not a book but an internet resource i somehow found, so no pages but i do not imagine it is more than thirty thousand words. this is a five. if you are interested in philosophy, if you read philosophy, if you do not mind translation on translation, if you really love the ways explored by bergson. so maybe it is a five just for me...
this is an explication of the entirety of bergson’s thought, from his first work (in english translation known as ‘time and free will’) through his major second work (‘matter and memory’) to his final masterpiece (‘creative evolution’). she works from either original texts or Spanish translations, she knows about ninety years since philosophy as she writes in 2014, she is lucid, she is critical, she recounts the background of his philosophy of intelligence’ in great depth, touching on all his major themes and how they lead his thought: quantity and quality, space and time, intellect and intuition, knowing from outside, feeling from within, and so on... she focuses on the evolutionary rise of intelligence and how it is cut from the same cloth as instinct, how neither ultimately leads to complete human living in the world. she shows that bergson believes in close sensory perception first, though in some other philosophies (of course not his...) this sometimes leads to confused intellectual conceptions, in dualism, in dogma... and how, for example, kant has the wrong way round a priori and possibilities of knowledge... (the wrong order, but i do not fully understand)...
i am not a philosopher of any particular sort though i have read mostly continental, some indic, some japanese, some chinese, and so my interests drift according to curiosity. i once read Bergsonism by deleuze but did not get it. i read other philosophy. i came back through mereau-ponty, reread it, read more bersgon and deleuze and now several years later i will read ‘virtually’ anything by or on bergson. he has become great resource, i can see his ideas everywhere acknowledged or not, maybe interpret him in japanese philosophy etc. i love bergson’s thoughts. i am pleased to read much more contemporary work on his ideas. i like his valorization of intuition and sense of time and memory and matter and spirit...
i cannot pretend to intellectually understand or intuitively perceive all bergson’s thoughts, but as more artist than professional philosopher, this lack is more inspiring than frustrating. i have read much philosophy (570), much bergson (52), but i do not argue, i do not claim, i do not promote, i simply enjoy entertaining these thoughts... i really enjoyed this virtual text...
more
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
Matter and Memory
Creative Evolution
Henri Bergson: Key Writings
Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life
Bergsonism
Bergson: Thinking Beyond the Human Condition
Deleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty: The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception
Henri Bergson
Thinking in Time: An Introduction to Henri Bergson
The Bergsonian Philosophy of Intelligence
Bergson and the Stream of Consciousness Novel
Morality in Evolution: The Moral Philosophy of Henri Bergson
The Crisis in Modernism: Bergson and the Vitalist Controversy
The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick
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