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Creative Mind An Introduction to Metaphysics
The Creative Mind the last of Henri Bergsons works to be published is a masterly autobiography of his philosophical method how he became a philosopher why he is a philosopher and what philosophy must be. These the man and his work compose a definite critique of philosophy. His skill is matched by his intensity his calling shines through on every page. Until philosophy leaves its false paths Bergson demonstrates it will remain a wordy dialectic a beating of false problems and it will never become a search for truth. How this search is to be undertaken is carefully outlined by the author. He builds as he destroys using the rubble of the old to build the new. His is a philosophy on the move the rationale of mans spiritual drive the mind gathering strength from its mastery of the of the material world to contemplate itself to find at the core of intuition the moving element of discovery and free the possessive sense of novelty. Life is to be grasped in handfuls but with the sure grasp of discipline.
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