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Time and Free Will; An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

By Henri Bergson

2020-04-10 17:31:47

Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (French: Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience) is Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis, first published in 1889. The essay deals with the problem of free will, which Bergso ... Read more
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness (French: Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience) is Henri Bergson's doctoral thesis, first published in 1889. The essay deals with the problem of free will, which Bergson contends is merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the extended, as a means of introducing his theory of duration, which would become highly influential among continental philosophers in the following century. Less

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File size271.46 KB
Print pages288
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0486417677
Henri-Louis Bergson (Oct 1859 – 4 Jan 1941) was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Se...

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