Talk:Henri Bergson
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What, specifically, was the mathematical problem whose solution was Bergson's first publication? -- Mike Hardy
Why would make Bergson an existentialist??? Marc Girod 15:24, 20 Dec 2003 (UTC)
"The Roman Catholic Church, however, which still believes that finality was reached in philosophy with the work of Thomas Aquinas, in the thirteenth century, and consequently makes that mediaeval philosophy her official, orthodox, and dogmatic view,,,,,".
This bit is quite clearly false. Just read Vatican II. More specific information on request if you want it.
The information I have added comes from the Catholic Encyclopaedia and the article it has on Henri Bergson.WHEELER 17:24, 2 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Where did you find an article on Henri Bergson in the Catholic Encyclopedia? There doesn't seem to be one there now.
You assert that, in 1911, the Roman Catholic Church "still believed that finality was reached in philosophy with the work of Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century, and consequently had made that mediaeval philosophy her official, orthodox, and dogmatic view, . . .", but that makes no sense. St. Bonaventure - whose views were opposed to those of Aquinas - was made a Doctor of the Church in 1588. Also, the Church had ruled Aquinas wrong on a number of points, including, most famously in 1854, his views opposing the Immaculate Conception. Joey1898 21:44, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
The Comments below were moved here from Talk:Fascism.
These comments are going to be put back onto Talk:Fascism. They do not belong here. 172 had no business moving them. WHEELER 14:20, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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This article should be cut into sections; in its present form it is kind of hard to read ^^ FiP 15:42, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I would like to protest the link to Fascism unless a solid link between Bergson and Fascism can be made, therefore I added a link to Open Society which is a term that Bergson coined and advocated. --Butter 20:51, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I agree that cutting this up into sections will help, and there's enough material about the Bergson-James relation here to make that a section of its own. I'll do so. --Christofurio 17:28, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Major Concern re this page
There is considerable renewed interest in Bergson at present which appears to be missing on the page at present. Would anyone help me review this. Personally, I am especially interested in - but have no expertise on - the critical dispute between Bergson and Einstein on Time Jeffrey Newman 04:42, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- Family background: I have edited out the reference to English 'blood' and added the Irish connexion. His mother was, I think, born or brought up in Doncaster but the family had been living in Ireland. The information, I think, is in Philippe Soulez biography. Where, and how, do we put sources? Jeffrey Newman 04:08, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
In reference to the article, could there be something about 'duration'(Duree), in regards to Bergsons thinking of temporarity? This would be helpful, I realise there is reference to 'memory', also some reference to 'multiplicities' would be a great help, epecially in terms of Bergson's thinking of 'duration'. I also believe this is central to the debate between Bergson and Einstein.
Mark
[edit] M. Bergson?
Santayana has many aphorisms mentioning M. Bergson the idealist, I can find in google "M. Bergson" many times, but not a whole first name. I suppose he was a contemporary of Santayana. There should be a disambiguation if anyone knows more Nagelfar 02:31, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
M. Bergson would be Monsieur Bergson. In fact I know that Santayana was a fan of Henri Bergson. I propose the disambiguation be deleted. --Butter 22:11, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
- The notion that Santayana was anything but a virulent critic of Bergson is false. I have added a well-needed section on Bergson criticism explaining this and some of the history of his reception. 71.198.247.21 01:37, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
This is a pretty general thing, but this article seems to have more to do with the Bergson-James relationship than Bergson's actual philosophy. I'm not well-Bergsoned enough to add that in myself, but for someone who was quite a philosophical celebrity in his day it's strange to see so little discussion of his ideas. --67.185.40.164 06:26, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
This article told me more than I had a right to expect about Henri Bergson's career, but I have to agree with the previous remark that an enlarged discussion of Bergson's philosophy would be very helpful. I was specifically looking for some brief (is it possible?) remarks concerning Bergson's ideas set forth in Matter and Memory. Walter Benjamin mentions this work in his essay, "On Some Motifs in Baudelaire," published in Illuminations. Mary Wilbur--66.82.9.34 21:23, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
I have to agree with these guys above, there is alot on his career, and relationship to James. But very little on his thinking for example, Duration[Duree]. His thinking on duration in regard to actual and the virtual, had a considerible impact on the thinking of Deleuze & Guattari, especially on their conception of the smooth & striated which is found in A Thousand Plateaus. Mark
[edit] Élan vital
No mention of this pivotal metaphysical and philosophical idea constitutes, I would suggest, a glaring omission. There is a page on élan vital which is a stub and where Henri Bergson is listed. meco 19:25, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bergson and motor racing
"Clermont-Ferrand, capital of the Puy-de-Dôme département, a town whose name is usually more of interest for motorists than for philosophers, being the home of Michelin tyres and the Charade Circuit racing track." Suggesting that Bergson moved to C-F because he was a racing enthusiast is very amusing, but hardly fair as he moved there in the early 1880s. Jedermann 10:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
