![]() ![]() They consist in supposing that everything is given from the start, in advance: either with the aim which one imagines pursued, from the beginning, "in spirit" by nature, or in the whole of the starting material parameters or in the presence - from which one could deduce exactly what has not yet happened. ![]() ![]() In this book, Bergson develops the idea of a "permanent creation of novelty" by nature.īergson debates the finalist explanation and the mechanistic explanation of evolution, respectively defended by traditional metaphysics (inherited from Leibniz and, before him, from Aristotle and emphasizing final causes, or goals) and by modern science (inherited from Descartes and emphasizing "efficient causes", scientific " causality ").īergson shows that these two visions, which are often opposed, actually amount to the same in the treatment of evolution. Creative Evolution is a philosophical workwritten by Henri Bergson in 1907. ![]()
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