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- Title
Capítulo octavo: La génesis de la materia.
- Authors
Manzano Vargas, Jorge
- Abstract
In this chapter, Jorge Manzano looks at one of Bergson's most controversial proposals. The main thesis is that the genesis of intelligence and of materiality are one and the same, that the same movement engenders the intellectuality of the spirit and the materiality of things. Manzano's analysis emphasizes that the twisting of this postulate can be traced back primarily to the widespread popular version of the Kantian conception of intelligence as inseparable from spatiality. On the contrary, Bergson, far from taking space for granted, contends that the genesis of space is the genesis of matter, and that both matter and intelligence are manifestations of the life current, constituting the forward movement of the finite élan that participates in creative power. Thus, what stands out is the historical and evolutionary perspective with which Bergson tries to understand the world: action, life, movement, and freedom are inseparable.
- Subjects
BERGSON, Henri, 1859-1941; INTELLECT; MATERIALS; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; VITAL force; ACT (Philosophy)
- Publication
Xipe Totek, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 103, p233
- ISSN
1870-2694
- Publication type
Article