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Emily Herring on Henri Bergson

2025/3/12
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Emily Herring: 我研究柏格森及其时代,发现他对时间和记忆的独特见解,以及他对机械论世界观的批判,至今仍具有重要意义。他的“时间历程”(durée)概念超越了传统的线性时间观,强调了时间体验的主观性和持续性,这与我们对人工智能和算法的担忧不谋而合。柏格森认为,科学的分析方法虽然有效,但会忽略经验的独特性和创造力。他强调直觉在理解生命和自由中的作用,这为我们理解人类在科技时代面临的挑战提供了新的视角。此外,柏格森的生平也充满了矛盾和张力,他既渴望学术成就,又厌恶名利,这使得他的思想更具魅力。 Nigel Warburton: (此处应补充Nigel Warburton的观点,由于访谈中Nigel Warburton主要以提问为主,没有形成完整的观点体系,因此此处无法补充200字以上的观点总结) supporting_evidences Emily Herring: 'He was a philosopher, but he was also a celebrity. The lectures he gave at the Collège de France in Paris on topics such as time and memory and creativity were in extremely high demand.' Emily Herring: 'He proposed that philosophy could coexist with science and offer sort of an alternative but compatible view of the world in which spirit and mind and human freedom and creativity would not be reduced to mechanistic principles.' Emily Herring: 'In his book about memory, he studied in great depth different pathologies of the brain and aphasia.' Emily Herring: 'So one of the ideas that Bergson's most famous for is his A view about time, specifically under the title of durée' Emily Herring: 'by the ways in which there are clear parallels between the anxieties of his time, anxieties about mechanization and dehumanization through mechanization, and then our current anxieties through facing various technologies.'

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This chapter introduces Henri Bergson, a once-famous French philosopher who is now less well-known. It explores his celebrity status during his lifetime, his unique lecturing style, and his polymathic nature, touching upon his mathematical abilities and connections to prominent figures like Marcel Proust.
  • Bergson was a celebrity philosopher in his time, giving highly sought-after lectures.
  • He was a polymath with expertise in mathematics, science, and philosophy.
  • Bergson had a connection to Marcel Proust, a family connection by marriage.

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Henri Bergson was once one of the most living famous philosophers. Now he is less well known. Emily Herring, his biographer, discusses this and some of his key ideas in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Nigel Warburton is the interviewer.