The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism

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Autor(a) principal: Costa Carvalho, Magda
Data de Publicação: 2012
Outros Autores: Patrão Neves, Maria do Céu
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2739
Resumo: Copyright © 2012 Philosophy Documentation Center. All Rights Reserved.
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spelling The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionismHenri BergsonCharles DarwinMetafísicaCiênciaEvolucionismoCopyright © 2012 Philosophy Documentation Center. All Rights Reserved.The main goal of Henri Bergson’s philosophy of nature is to offer a dynamic understanding of living phenomena. It is in this context that we maintain that the author left us a “bio-philosophy”, that is, an interpretation which, by adopting a positive model of biology as a cognitive paradigm, describes the essential character of living activity as time or duration (durée). Bergson’s positive metaphysics, which brings scientific positivity to the metaphysical field and provides an inner perspective of the vital principle, consolidated itself in the study of evolutionary theories like Darwinism. However, the specificity of the perspective Bergson presents to us lies in the fact that he positions himself as a philosopher and not as a man of science: he does not seek a merely positive explanation of reality, but an integral vision that allows us to give scientific evolution a metaphysical reading. Thus, when Bergson upholds the insufficiency of pure Darwinism, and proposes a true evolutionism, it is because he considers that the only way to understand the evolutionary nature of life is by overcoming a strictly mechanistic perspective. For Bergson, such an interpretation results from the artificial way in which our intellectual functions deconstructs reality and leads to an incomplete and fragmented reading of the evolution of organisms. As a philosopher he seeks an explanatory level which, being positively based, is not restricted to the physico-chemical limits of reality. For that reason, Bergson claims that the inner cause of evolution is an activity where growth and division occur as a natural result of the divergence of life’s tendencies.Center for Process StudiesRepositório da Universidade dos AçoresCosta Carvalho, MagdaPatrão Neves, Maria do Céu2014-02-10T17:10:57Z20122012-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/2739engCosta Carvalho, Magda; Patrão Neves, M. (2012). "The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism", Process Studies, 41(1), pp. 133-149. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/process20124117.0360-6503info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-12-20T14:30:37Zoai:repositorio.uac.pt:10400.3/2739Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:25:24.961169Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism
title The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism
spellingShingle The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism
Costa Carvalho, Magda
Henri Bergson
Charles Darwin
Metafísica
Ciência
Evolucionismo
title_short The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism
title_full The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism
title_fullStr The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism
title_full_unstemmed The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism
title_sort The bio-philosophical "insufficiency" of Darwinism for Henri Bergson's metaphysical evolutionism
author Costa Carvalho, Magda
author_facet Costa Carvalho, Magda
Patrão Neves, Maria do Céu
author_role author
author2 Patrão Neves, Maria do Céu
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Costa Carvalho, Magda
Patrão Neves, Maria do Céu
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Henri Bergson
Charles Darwin
Metafísica
Ciência
Evolucionismo
topic Henri Bergson
Charles Darwin
Metafísica
Ciência
Evolucionismo
description Copyright © 2012 Philosophy Documentation Center. All Rights Reserved.
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