Summary
Henri Bergson: Spiritual energy / Thought and mobility
Henri Bergson (Paris, 18.10.1859 - Paris, 4.01.1941) was a French philosopher who left a big mark on the 20th century. He was an excellent mathematician, then he switched to the humanities. He submitted two doctorates: An Essay on the Immediate Givens of Consciousness, and one in Latin on Aristotle's understanding of place. He taught at the College de France, he also taught in America, he was a member of the French Academy and was the first Jew to join it. He also had a political career, he dies at the age of 81. He leaned towards Catholicism without ever converting to it, and in 1927 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His entire philosophy is a spiritualistic alternative to the positivism of the 20th century. The most important works: Matter and Memory and Creative Evolution.
Among the public lectures, there are a large number of those presented abroad, but not published in France. Such presentations in English have never been printed in French. The collection consists of two units. In the first, papers related to certain problems of psychology and philosophy are collected. They all lead to the problem of spiritual energy; that is the title we give to this book. The second part contains experiments related to the method, with an introduction that indicates the origin of the method as well as the procedure that must be followed in the applications.
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