Henri Bergson

Time and Free Will

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Bergson argues for free will by showing that the arguments against it come from a confusion of different conceptions of time. As opposed to physicists' idea of measurable time, life is perceived in human experience as a continuous and immeasurable flow rather than as a succession of marked-off states of consciousness.
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305 printed pages
Publication year
2012
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  • Salma S. Larahas quoted4 years ago
    The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
  • Salma S. Larahas quoted4 years ago
    Perhaps the difficulty of the problem lies chiefly in the fact that we call by the same name, and picture to ourselves in the same way, intensities which are very different in nature
  • Salma S. Larahas quoted4 years ago
    But, in the immense majority of cases, we decide about the intensity of the effect without even knowing the nature of the cause, much less its magnitude : indeed, it is the very intensity of the effect which often leads us to venture an hypothesis as to the number and nature of the causes, and thus to revise the judgment of our senses, which at first represented them as insignificant.
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