An Introduction to Metaphysics (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Henri Bergson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330008979 ISBN 13 : 9781330008973

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Two ways of knowing meet in one bold claim: to grasp reality, we can look from the outside or enter from within.

This introduction to Bergson’s philosophy contrasts analysis, which builds knowledge from symbols and external viewpoints, with intuition, a direct, inner contact with life as it happens. It explains why understanding the absolute requires a different method than ordinary science, and how duration reveals the flow of inner experience that analysis misses.

The text argues that conventional knowledge tends to abstract and stabilize moving reality into fixed ideas. By contrast, intuition seeks to coincide with the object itself, offering a sense of unity that analysis cannot provide. The work also surveys how modern science and philosophy have treated time, change, and being, and why a truly philosophical understanding must move beyond preexisting systems toward a living, evolving mind.

• Learn the difference between external observation and internal insight.
• See why duration and becoming challenge the idea that analysis can capture the whole of experience.
• Understand Bergson’s critique of Kantian and Platonic frameworks and the call for a dynamic, intuition-driven philosophy.
• Discover how science and metaphysics relate, conflict, and yet illuminate each other.

Ideal for readers of philosophy and anyone curious about how we truly come to know what we know, this edition clarifies Bergson’s core distinction between the stationary diagrams of analysis and the living motion of intuition. It makes a compelling case for a philosophy that grows with experience, not just with definitions.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Revue deM etaphyaique et fe Morale, in January, 1903. i It appeared then after Time andF ree Will and Matter and Memory and before Creative Evolution; and while containing ideas set forth in the first two of these works, it announces some of those which were afterwards developed in the last. Though this book can in no sense be regarded as an epitome of the others, it yet forms the best introduction to them. M. Edouard Le Roy in his lately published book on M. Bergson sphilosophy speaks of this marvelously suggestive study which constitutes the best preface to the books themselves. It has, however, more importance than a simple introduction would have, for in it M.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330008979
• ISBN 13: 9781330008973
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
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