Élan Vital (Vital Impulse): Central to Bergson’s philosophy is the concept of élan vital, a creative force that drives the evolution of life. Unlike the deterministic view of evolution as merely a ...

ABSTRACT: A child born into a dual-language speaking family has the potential to grow into an accent-free bilingual; yet, with all the ubiquity of bilingualism, this tongue is rare. While the mere ...

While Henri Bergson did not point his intellectual abilities toward politics, lesser men who were unscrupulous commandeered his ideas to promote their own collectivist ideologies.

Footnote 47 A possible way to interpret these passages is through the lens of Bergson’s philosophical approach explored above. It appears that the original principle of divine will instills into ...

At one point, however, Bergson seems to come into direct conflict with the Minkowski-Einstein scheme of a space-time continuum. This is in his conception of creative evolution. Creation means that ...

Human development is not determined by the mechanics of Darwinian evolution, wrote the French philosopher Henri Bergson, but by our own creative impulses. The advent of farming, industrial ...