Bergsonianism
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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.
Aliases (1)
- Bergsonism ×1
Statements (47)
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| instanceOf |
philosophical movement
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| associatedWith |
Henri Bergson’s work "Creative Evolution"
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Henri Bergson’s work "Matter and Memory" → Henri Bergson’s work "The Two Sources of Morality and Religion" → Henri Bergson’s work "Time and Free Will" → |
| basedOn |
the philosophy of Henri Bergson
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| centralIdea |
life is characterized by an élan vital or creative evolution
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reality is better grasped by intuition than by abstract intellect → time is lived as duration rather than as measurable clock time → |
| emergedInCentury |
19th century
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20th century → |
| emphasizes |
continuous becoming
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creativity in nature → immediacy of lived experience → |
| hasCoreConcept |
creative evolution
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duration → intuition → |
| hasViewOn |
free will as real and irreducible
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memory as central to consciousness → novelty as an ontological feature of reality → |
| historicalContext |
Third Republic France
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fin de siècle culture → |
| influenced |
Alfred North Whitehead
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European philosophy → French Catholic thought in the early 20th century → French philosophy → 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
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| opposes |
mechanistic determinism
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reductive scientism → |
| relatedTo |
anti-positivist movements
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intuitionism in ethics and epistemology → vitalist biology debates → |
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Georges Sorel
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Henri Bergson ("Bergsonism") → |
movement |