Creative Evolution 1920

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ISBN: 9780766147324 | 0766147320
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Copyright: 3/1/2003

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"Creative Evolution (1907) is the text that made Bergson world-famous. In this work, Bergson takes the special theory of duration developed in the philosophy of mind in Time and Free Will and Matter and Memory, and generalizes it into a cosmology of life and matter in the field of evolution, of change in biological life. Tackling the concepts of evolution current at the time, Bergson shows how both mechanistic (Neo-Darwinian) and finalist (Neo-Lamarckian) theories of evolution fail to account for the diverse creativity of nature, especially speciation."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Editions and translations of Bergson used	p. xxviii
Further Reading	p. xxix
Creative Evolution	p. xxxi
Translator's Note	p. xxxiii
Introduction	p. xxxv
The Evolution of Life - Mechanism and Teleology	p. 1
Of duration in general
Unorganized bodies and abstract time
Organized bodies and real duration
Individuality and the process of growing old
Of transformism and the different ways of interpreting it
Radical mechanism and real duration: the relation of biology to physics and chemistry
Radical finalism and real duration: the relation of biology to philosophy
The quest of a criterion
Examination of the various theories with regard to a particular example
Darwin and insensible variation
De Vries and sudden variation
Eimer and orthogenesis
Neo-Lamarckism and the hereditability of acquired characters
Result of the inquiry
The vital impetus
The Divergent Directions of the Evolution of Life. Torpor, Intelligence, Instinct	p. 64
General idea of the evolutionary process
Growth
Divergent and complementary tendencies
The meaning of progress and of adaptation
The relation of the animal to the plant
General tendency of animal life
The development of animal life
The main directions of the evolution of life: torpor, intelligence, instinct
The nature of the intellect
The nature of instinct
Life and consciousness
The apparent place of man in nature
On the Meaning of Life - the Order of Nature and the Form of Intelligence	p. 120
Relation of the problem of life to the problem of knowledge
The method of philosophy
Apparent vicious circle of the method proposed
Real vicious circle of the opposite method
Simultaneous genesis of matter and intelligence
Geometry inherent in matter
Geometrical tendency of the intellect
Geometry and deduction
Geometry and induction
Physical laws
Sketch of a theory of knowledge based on the analysis of the idea of Disorder
Two opposed forms of order: the problem of genera and the problem of laws
The idea of "disorder" an oscillation of the intellect between the two kinds of order
Creation and evolution
Ideal genesis of matter
The origin and function of life
The essential and the accidental in the vital process and in the evolutionary movement
Mankind
The life of the body and the life of the spirit
The Cinematographical Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion - a Glance at the History of Systems - Real Becoming and False Evolutionism	p. 174
Sketch of a criticism of philosophical systems, based on the analysis of the idea of Immutability and of the idea of "Nothing"
Relation of metaphysical problems to the idea of "Nothing"
Real meaning of this idea
Form and Becoming
The philosophy of Forms and its conception of Becoming
Plato and Aristotle
The natural trend of the intellect
Becoming in modern science: two views of Time
The metaphysical interpretation of modern science: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz
The Criticism of Kant
The evolutionism of Spencer
Bibliographical Material	p. 237
Biographical Synopses	p. 241
Glossary of Biological Terms	p. 248
Index	p. 261
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