Creative evolution ( Fr. L'Évolution créatrice ) is one of the founding works of Henri Bergson , first published in 1907 . The book claims to be a treatise on the philosophy of evolution .
Content
Contents
Bergson believes evolution is the greatest discovery of human thought (associated with the names of Spencer , Darwin, and Lamarck ). It gives the key to understanding that the fabric of reality itself is duration ( French Duration ). Matter itself, argues Bergson, is “more like a current than a thing.” Perception of reality in its discrete form is the main fallacy of intelligence . Bergson contrasts this analytical ability of understanding with synthetic instinct and intuition (“disinterested instinct”). However, he does not belittle the intellect, which allows life to turn matter into its instrument, since intelligence is also “the ability to fabricate artificial objects” and the product of evolution itself. Bergson considers the impulse of evolution itself a vital impulse ( fr. Élan vital ) - a charge of energy that allows you to move from simple forms of organization of matter to complex. The essence of evolution is development along diverging lines.
Table of Contents
- chapter. On the evolution of life.
- chapter. Directions of evolution.
- chapter. About the meaning of life.
- chapter. Cinematic thinking mechanism.
Aphorisms
- Duration is the very fabric of reality
- There are no things: only actions
- Food is something like explosive
- The living entity is the center of action
- Life is a tendency, the essence of a tendency is development in the form of a bundle: it creates diverging lines with one fact of its growth.
- Evolution is continuously renewed creativity.
Literature
- Bergson A. Creative Evolution / Per. V. A. Flerova. - M .: CANON-press, Kuchkovo field, 1998.
Links
- Henri Bergson. Creative evolution. Introduction and Chapter One (link out of date)