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Creative Evolution by Bergson, Henri is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Creative Evolution about?
Bergson was an evolutionist, neo-Hereclitian, who thought that change, not being ( *esse* ), was the fundamental truth of reality. He had it backwards: [Being presupposes change](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/51229/2014) (not the converse)! Jacques Maritain was an ex-Bergsonian, Thomist convert. * * * The fullest expression of the distinguished French philosopher's ideas about the meaning of life. In propounding his distinctive theory of evolution, Bergson considers nature and intelligence, examines mechanisms of thought and illusion, and presents a criticism of philosophical systems from those of the ancients to those of his 19th-century contemporaries.
Who reads Creative Evolution?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bergson, Henri
- Publisher
- Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780486400365
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Fiction, Physics
- Rating
- 4.06 / 5 (52 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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