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The Philosophy of Change; a Study of the Fundamental Principle of the Philosophy of Bergson
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234 pages, Paperback
Published October 27, 2022
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September 19, 2022
Very short little book written by H Weldon Carr about the philosophy of Henri bergson. Fairly good summary of some of the philosophical points of Mr bergson around the topics of philosophy and life, intellect and matter, instinct and intelligence, intuition, freedom, mind and body, and creative evolution. Wasn't overly wowed with this but here are some of the best bits from the book:
When Berkeley said that reality was perception he was calling attention to the fact that we all mean by reality what we “perceive” and not something or other which we never do and never can perceive.
A thing that lives is a thing that endures not by remaining the same but by changing unceasingly
the intellect is cinematographical . This description is the happiest of any of the images that bergson has used to illustrate his theory. The cinematograph takes views of a moving scene: each view represents a fixed position and when the views are arranged side by side on the film and passed across the screen in rapid succession they present to us a moving picture. Sunny: I've spoken about this also. Images are fixed points in time but when you can think with a rolling stream of concepts or a rolling stream of images you have not “imagination” but something even more powerful: “filmagination”.
We may suppose an Infinity of points in a line but to suppose everyone stop in the movement is contradictory: a stop is not a part of a movement but the negation of a movement
The frames into which our intellect fits the reality but to use the intuition to seize the reality itself to make of intuition of philosophical instrument to find it in a philosophical method. Is it possible to know things in themselves things as they are without the spaces and time form in which our senses apprehend them? Without the concepts in which our understanding frames them?
The sciences are the organization of experience into systems of reality that serve the mind as tools serve the body. We are continually confronted with the need of action: while we live there is this unceasing demand to act.
When Berkeley said that reality was perception he was calling attention to the fact that we all mean by reality what we “perceive” and not something or other which we never do and never can perceive.
A thing that lives is a thing that endures not by remaining the same but by changing unceasingly
the intellect is cinematographical . This description is the happiest of any of the images that bergson has used to illustrate his theory. The cinematograph takes views of a moving scene: each view represents a fixed position and when the views are arranged side by side on the film and passed across the screen in rapid succession they present to us a moving picture. Sunny: I've spoken about this also. Images are fixed points in time but when you can think with a rolling stream of concepts or a rolling stream of images you have not “imagination” but something even more powerful: “filmagination”.
We may suppose an Infinity of points in a line but to suppose everyone stop in the movement is contradictory: a stop is not a part of a movement but the negation of a movement
The frames into which our intellect fits the reality but to use the intuition to seize the reality itself to make of intuition of philosophical instrument to find it in a philosophical method. Is it possible to know things in themselves things as they are without the spaces and time form in which our senses apprehend them? Without the concepts in which our understanding frames them?
The sciences are the organization of experience into systems of reality that serve the mind as tools serve the body. We are continually confronted with the need of action: while we live there is this unceasing demand to act.
June 14, 2024
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170417: well i found these other bergson texts in the high-density-library (stored not displayed) at u library, so this is one. from early 20th c when his thought is well known and vigorously interrogated. the other books are more or less the same. i like bergson. i am not studying him. so who knows if i know, i just enjoy him....
170417: well i found these other bergson texts in the high-density-library (stored not displayed) at u library, so this is one. from early 20th c when his thought is well known and vigorously interrogated. the other books are more or less the same. i like bergson. i am not studying him. so who knows if i know, i just enjoy him....
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