Bergson,Henri Louis

Bergson,Henri Louis
Berg·son (bĕrgʹsən, bĕrg-sôɴʹ), Henri Louis. 1859-1941.
French philosopher and writer whose popular and accessible works, including Creative Evolution (1907) and The Creative Mind (1934), largely concern the importance of intuition as a means of attaining knowledge and the élan vital present in all living things. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize for literature.

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  • Bergson, Henri (-Louis) — born Oct. 15, 1859, Paris, France died Jan. 4, 1941, Paris French philosopher. In Creative Evolution (1907), he argued that evolution, which he accepted as scientific fact, is not mechanistic but driven by an élan vital ( vital impulse ). He was… …   Universalium

  • Bergson, Henri Louis — ► (1859 1941) Filósofo francés. Fue miembro de la Academia Francesa y premio Nobel de Literatura en 1927. Postuló una filosofía vitalista fundamentada en la intuición de los datos inmediatos de la conciencia sin las limitaciones del espacio.… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Bergson, Henri (-Louis) — (15 oct. 1859, París, Francia–4 ene. 1941, París). Filósofo francés. En Evolution créative [Evolución creadora] (1907) afirmó que la evolución, que aceptó como hecho científico, no es mecanicista, sino que está movida por un élan vital ( impulso… …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • BERGSON, Henri Louis — (1859 1941)    French philosopher whose theories of COSMIC EVOLUTION have inspired various religious thinkers and contributed to the growth of process THEOLOGY. His best known PHILOSOPHICAL work is Creative Evolution (1907) …   Concise dictionary of Religion

  • Bergson, Henri — ▪ French philosopher Introduction in full  Henri Louis Bergson  born Oct. 18, 1859, Paris, France died Jan. 4, 1941, Paris  French philosopher, the first to elaborate what came to be called a process philosophy, which rejected static values in… …   Universalium

  • Henri Louis Bergson — noun French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859 1941) • Syn: ↑Bergson, ↑Henri Bergson • Instance Hypernyms: ↑philosopher …   Useful english dictionary

  • Henri Louis Bergson — n. Henri Bergson (1859 1941), French philosopher and writer, winner of the 1927 Nobel prize for literature …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Bergson — Bergson, Henri Louis …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Bergson — Henri Bergson Henri Louis Bergson Philosophe Occidental Époque moderne Henri Bergson, Prix Nobel de littérature (1927) Naissance  …   Wikipédia en Français

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