Pirates & Revolutionaries: Bergson's Creative Evolution, entry directory

by Corry Shores

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[Central Entry Directory]
[Bergson, Entry Directory]

Entry Directory for

Henri Bergson

Évolution Créatrice
Creative Evolution

Chapter 1
De l’évolution de la vie. – Mécanisme et finalité.
The Evolution of Life – Mechanism and Teleology

1: Of Duration in General / De la durée en général

2. Unorganized Bodies and Abstract Time / Les corps inorganisés

3. Organized Bodies and Real Duration / Les corps organisés

4. Individuality and Age / vieillissement et individualité

5. Transformism / Du transformisme et des manières de l'interpréter

Evolving Science. Baldwin. Development and Evolution. p.330

6. Radical Mechanism and Real Duration: the Relation of biology to physics and chemistry / Le mécanisme radical : biologie et physico-chimie.

7. Radical Finalism and Real Duration: The Relation of Biology to Philosophy / Le finalisme radical : biologie et philosophie

8. The Quest of a Criterion / Recherche d'un critérium

9. Examination of the Various Theories with Regard to a Particular Example / Examen des diverses théories transformistes sur un exemple particulier

10. Darwin and Insensible Variation / Darwin et la variation insensible

11. De Vries and Sudden Variation / De Vries et la variation brusque

Ch.4

The cinématographical mechanism of thought and the mechanistic illusion – A glance at the history of systems – Real becoming and false evolutionism

Le mécanisme cinématographique de la pensée et l'illusion mécanistique. — Coup d'oeil sur l'histoire des systèmes. — Le devenir réel et le faux évolutionisme.

Subsection 1

The idea of ‘nothing’

L'existence et le néant

Sub-Subsection 1

Sketch of a criticism of philosophical systems, based on the analysis of the idea of Immutability and of the idea of “Nothing”

Sub-Subsection 2
Relation of metaphysical problems to the idea of “Nothing”

4.3

[durational reality and the non-primacy of nothingness]

4.4

Le devenir et la forme / Form and Becoming
[Part 1: Reification of the flux]

4.5

Le devenir et la forme / Form and Becoming