Bergson in a sentence

According to Santayana and Russell, Bergson projected false claims onto the aspirations of scientific method, claims which Bergson needed to make in order to justify his prior moral commitment to freedom.

Although acknowledging Bergson's literary skills, Russell saw Bergson's arguments at best as persuasive or emotive speculation but not at all as any worthwhile example of sound reasoning or philosophical insight.

As Jean Wahl described the “ultimate disagreement” between James and Bergson in his System of Metaphysics: “for James, the consideration of action is necessary for the definition of truth, according to Bergson, action.

Compare his memorial address on Ravaisson, who died in 1900.) Bergson settled again in Paris in 1888, Henri Bergson: Key Writings, ed. Keith Ansell Pearson and John Mullarkey.

Two images from Henri Bergson’s An Introduction to Metaphysics may help one to grasp Bergson's term intuition, the limits of concepts, and the ability of intuition to grasp the absolute.

The humorless French philosopher Henri Bergson insisted that comedy occurs when something organic is transposed into something mechanical, and that seems to be the case here: a stomping, hat-throwing fury is directed at a stationary metal box.

Whether America is any longer capable of authentic change depends in large measure on how we answer the other question Bergson imposes upon us.

I really see his thought as a thought of the present, the instant, and grace which has no lineage in western philosophy, so he’s completely in the metaphysics of Bergson, but he’s also embodying philosophy in art – or art is the embodiment of philosophy.

According to Henri Hude (1990, II, p. 142), who supports himself on the whole of Bergson's works as well as his now published courses, accusing him of pantheism is a "counter-sense".

According to Russell, Bergson uses an outmoded spatial metaphor (“extended images”) to describe the nature of mathematics as well as logic in general.

Although James was slightly ahead in the development and enunciation of his ideas, he confessed that he was baffled by many of Bergson's notions.

As many of Bergson's contributions to French periodicals remained relatively inaccessible, he agreed to the request of his friends to have such works collected and published in two volumes.

Bergson commented on the need for new ways of thinking about movement, and coined the terms "the movement-image" and "the time-image".

Bergson did a large amount of travelling and lecturing in America during the war.

Bergson disputed what he saw as Spencer's mechanistic philosophy.

Bergson had spent years of research in preparation for each of his three large works.

Bergson, Henri (1907) Creative Evolution. trans. by Arthur Mitchell.

Bergson inclined to convert to Catholicism, writing in his will on February 8, 1937: My thinking has always brought me nearer to Catholicism, in which I saw the perfect complement to Judaism.

Bergson quoted the first two of these articles in his 1889 work, Time and Free Will.

Bergson replied to this insinuation by denying that he had any knowledge of the article by James when he wrote Les données immédiates de la conscience.