Autore |
Bergson Henri <1859-1941.>
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London, : Electric Book Co., c2001
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Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (371 p.)
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Altri autori (Persone) |
MitchellArthur <1872-1953.>
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Soggetto topico |
Evolution
Metaphysics
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ISBN |
1-4619-1162-1
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Translator's Note -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I The Evolution Of Life-Mechanism And Teleology -- Unorganized bodies -- Organized bodies -- Individuality and age -- Transformism -- Radical finalism -- Insensible variation -- Variation and heredity -- Result of the discussion -- The vital impetus -- CHAPTER II The Divergent Directions of the Evolution of Life. Torpor, Intelligence, Instinct -- Adaptation and progress -- The plant and the animal -- Animal life -- Development of animal life -- Intelligence and instinct -- The nature of instinct -- Life and consciousness -- CHAPTER III On the Meaning of Life-The Order of Nature and the Form of Intelligence -- Science and philosophy -- Intellect and materiality -- The geometrical order -- Geometry and deduction -- Geometry and induction -- Physical laws -- The idea of disorder -- Laws and genera -- Two kinds of order -- Ideal genesis of matter -- The meaning of evolution -- CHAPTER IV The Cinematographical Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion-A Glance at the History of Systems -Real Becoming and False Evolutionism -- The idea of 'nothing' -- Form and becoming -- Plato and Aristotle -- Modern science -- Parallelism and monism -- The Kantian criticism -- The evolution of Spencer.
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Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820424003321 |