Bergsonianism

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philosophical movement

Bergsonianism is a philosophical movement based on Henri Bergson’s ideas about intuition, duration, and creative evolution, which significantly influenced thinkers such as Georges Sorel.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Bergsonism	6
Bergsonianism canonical	1
intuition (Bergson)	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	philosophical movement ⓘ
associatedWith	Henri Bergson ⓘ surface form: Henri Bergson’s work "Creative Evolution" Matter and Memory ⓘ surface form: Henri Bergson’s work "Matter and Memory" The Two Sources of Morality and Religion ⓘ surface form: Henri Bergson’s work "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" Time and Free Will ⓘ surface form: Henri Bergson’s work "Time and Free Will"
basedOn	the philosophy of Henri Bergson ⓘ
centralIdea	life is characterized by an élan vital or creative evolution ⓘ reality is better grasped by intuition than by abstract intellect ⓘ time is lived as duration rather than as measurable clock time ⓘ
emergedInCentury	19th century ⓘ 20th century ⓘ
emphasizes	continuous becoming ⓘ creativity in nature ⓘ immediacy of lived experience ⓘ
hasCoreConcept	creative evolution ⓘ duration ⓘ intuition ⓘ
hasViewOn	free will as real and irreducible ⓘ memory as central to consciousness ⓘ novelty as an ontological feature of reality ⓘ
historicalContext	French Third Republic ⓘ surface form: Third Republic France fin de siècle culture ⓘ
influenced	Alfred North Whitehead ⓘ European philosophy ⓘ French Catholic thought in the early 20th century ⓘ French philosophy ⓘ Spiritualism ⓘ surface form: French spiritualism French syndicalism ⓘ Georges Sorel ⓘ Georges Sorel’s theory of myth ⓘ Georges Sorel’s theory of violence ⓘ Gilles Deleuze ⓘ Marcel Proust ⓘ Nicolai Hartmann ⓘ William James ⓘ existentialism ⓘ literary modernism ⓘ modernism ⓘ phenomenology ⓘ process philosophy ⓘ vitalism ⓘ
namedAfter	Henri Bergson ⓘ
opposes	mechanistic determinism ⓘ reductive scientism ⓘ
relatedTo	anti-positivist movements ⓘ intuitionism in ethics and epistemology ⓘ vitalist biology debates ⓘ