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Bergsonism
[ burg-suh-niz-uhm, berg- ]
noun
- the philosophy of Bergson, emphasizing duration as the central fact of experience and asserting the existence of the élan vital as an original life force essentially governing all organic processes.
Bergsonism
/ ˈɜːɡəˌɪə /
noun
- the philosophy of Henri Bergson, which emphasizes duration as the basic element of experience and asserts the existence of a life-giving force that permeates the entire natural order Compare élan vital
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of Bergsonism1
Example Sentences
Most modern students of evolution take little stock in either Bergsonism or Lamarckism.
Philosophy, you will say, doesn't lie flat on its belly in the middle of experience, in the very thick of its sand and gravel, as this Bergsonism does, never getting a peep at anything from above.
Philosophical Review, May, 1912 "Practical Tendencies of Bergsonism" International Journal of Ethics, 1913 "Some Antecedents of Bergson's Philosophy" Mind, 1913.
It is among such women that one observes the periodic rages for Bergsonism, the Montessori method, the twilight sleep and other such follies, so pathetically characteristic of American culture.
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