Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience

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Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience is a foundational 1889 philosophical work by Henri Bergson that explores the nature of time, consciousness, and free will through the concept of durée (duration).

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French-language book
book
non-fiction book
philosophical work
academicDiscipline philosophy
academicOrigin doctoral thesis
arguesAgainst mechanistic determinism
psychological atomism
spatialization of time
author Henri Bergson NERFINISHED
centralClaim freedom is rooted in the continuity of conscious duration
inner duration cannot be adequately represented by spatialized, homogeneous time
time is lived as qualitative duration rather than as quantitative succession of instants
countryOfOrigin France
examines nature of conscious states
problem of free will and determinism
relationship between quantitative time and qualitative duration
genre metaphysics
phenomenology
philosophy of mind
influenced French spiritualism
existentialism
phenomenology
process philosophy
influencedBy Immanuel Kant
nineteenth-century psychology
psychophysics
keyConcept inner duration
intuition
qualitative multiplicity
quantitative multiplicity
mainTopic consciousness
duration
free will
time
notableFor critique of the application of quantitative methods to inner experience
defense of a non-mechanistic conception of freedom
introduction of the concept of durée in Bergson’s philosophy
originalLanguage French
philosophicalConcept durée
philosophicalMovement Bergsonism NERFINISHED
philosophicalTradition French philosophy
continental philosophy
publicationYear 1889
relatedWorkOfAuthor L’Évolution créatrice NERFINISHED
Matière et mémoire NERFINISHED
structure three chapters

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Time and Free Will originalTitle Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience