A most interesting modern French philosopher, who won the nobel prize and did much to refute Kant, and inaugurate a new era of existentialism. He essentially renounced the method and notion that logic is an adequate measure of what can or cannot be. As he said, "TO GIVE UP THE LOGIC, squarely and irrevocably" as a method, for he found that "reality, life, experience, concreteness, immediacy, use what word you will, exceeds our logic, overflows, and surrounds it."
His interest in time and free will, is also something worthy of discussion. Time and Free Will is one of Bergson's most interesting and famous works which included his idea of the duree (Real Time) and the spatialization of time. Bergson presents to the reader an energetic flux which is the precondition of our more vulgar concept of time. With this flux, the past is pulled along by the future and presented to consciousness in the present as a heterogeneous conglomeration, inseperable and uncategorizable. It is this work which inspired the stream of consciousness novelists, especially Proust. But the most remarkable element of Time and Free Will is its demand on the reader to live the duree, to return to the duree and forget oneself in it. The goal is freedom and authenticity and this can only be achieved when letting oneself go, flying like a bird, and despatializing time.
Hence, I was wondering as to any reaction to his ideas on time and logic. I suppose if anyone would like to know more about his myriad of ideas, this is a decent place to start: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/
His interest in time and free will, is also something worthy of discussion. Time and Free Will is one of Bergson's most interesting and famous works which included his idea of the duree (Real Time) and the spatialization of time. Bergson presents to the reader an energetic flux which is the precondition of our more vulgar concept of time. With this flux, the past is pulled along by the future and presented to consciousness in the present as a heterogeneous conglomeration, inseperable and uncategorizable. It is this work which inspired the stream of consciousness novelists, especially Proust. But the most remarkable element of Time and Free Will is its demand on the reader to live the duree, to return to the duree and forget oneself in it. The goal is freedom and authenticity and this can only be achieved when letting oneself go, flying like a bird, and despatializing time.
Hence, I was wondering as to any reaction to his ideas on time and logic. I suppose if anyone would like to know more about his myriad of ideas, this is a decent place to start: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/
Do you have any thoughts on this then?
