Philosopher of Duration
Henri Bergson
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A French philosopher who contrasted measured clock time with lived duration, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927.
Key work: Time and Free Will (1889)
“For a conscious being, to exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Lived time flows; clock time is cut into pieces.
Intuition grasps what analysis breaks apart.
Life is creative change, not a machine.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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Clock Time and Lived Time
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