Henri Bergson’s Spiritual Philosophy

Volume 4|Issue 13| Summer 2015 |Book Reviews

Abstract

The author attempts to tackle the spiritual philosophy of Henri Bergson which is understood to be a living, inner, instinctive sense that rightly expresses spiritual permanence as an ontological mode that tries to prove itself by means of the idea of perfection. It links the ethical and the ontological, making the ethical conform to the spiritual-temporal, since permanence extends with the creative nature and call to live with spiritual values in lived reality for humanity to have a true essence that transcends instinct or reason and instrumentalism and rescues contemporary man from the claws of nihilism and objectification. The problematic of the research lies in its attempt to answer the following questions: what is the status of permanence in the spiritual philosophy of Henri Bergson? Why did he concentrate on the spirit as opposed to the natural body? What is the source for Bergsonian spiritual values? How did Bergson refute modern conceptions based on instrumental reason and objectification?

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Researcher and editorial secretary for Tabayyun Journal at the ACRPS. He holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy from the University of Algiers 02. His research interests focus on the issues of philosophy of religion and the sacred, Hermeneutics, phenomenology, existential psychotherapy, and contemporary existential philosophy.

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