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Bergson, Henri

 
9781330008973: An Introduction to Metaphysics (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Two ways of knowing meet in one bold claim: to grasp reality, we can look from the outside or enter from within.

This introduction to Bergson’s philosophy contrasts analysis, which builds knowledge from symbols and external viewpoints, with intuition, a direct, inner contact with life as it happens. It explains why understanding the absolute requires a different method than ordinary science, and how duration reveals the flow of inner experience that analysis misses.

The text argues that conventional knowledge tends to abstract and stabilize moving reality into fixed ideas. By contrast, intuition seeks to coincide with the object itself, offering a sense of unity that analysis cannot provide. The work also surveys how modern science and philosophy have treated time, change, and being, and why a truly philosophical understanding must move beyond preexisting systems toward a living, evolving mind.
  • Learn the difference between external observation and internal insight.
  • See why duration and becoming challenge the idea that analysis can capture the whole of experience.
  • Understand Bergson’s critique of Kantian and Platonic frameworks and the call for a dynamic, intuition-driven philosophy.
  • Discover how science and metaphysics relate, conflict, and yet illuminate each other.
Ideal for readers of philosophy and anyone curious about how we truly come to know what we know, this edition clarifies Bergson’s core distinction between the stationary diagrams of analysis and the living motion of intuition. It makes a compelling case for a philosophy that grows with experience, not just with definitions.

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Excerpt from An Introduction to Metaphysics

Though this book can in no sense be regarded as an epitome of the others, it yet forms the best introduction to them. M. Edouard Le Boy in his lately published book on M. Bergson's philosophy speaks of this marvelously suggestive study which constitutes the best preface to the books themselves.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from An Introduction to Metaphysics

This celebrated essay was first published in the Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale, in January, 1903. It appeared then after Time and Free Will and Matter and Memory and before Creative Evolution; and while containing ideas set forth in the first two of these works, it announces some of those which were afterwards developed in the last.

Though this book can in no sense be regarded as an epitome of the others, it yet forms the best introduction to them. M. Edouard Le Roy in his lately published book on M. Bergson's philosophy speaks of "this marvelously suggestive study which constitutes the best preface to the books themselves."

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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