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philosopher of Jewish descent, The theory presented an
also revived the role of evolution in which a free
metaphysics and ethics in the emergence of the individual
midst of positivist attitudes in intelligence could be recognized.
his outstanding works in It was thus wholly distinct
Western philosophy. By choosing from previous deterministic
the cognitive method of hypotheses that were either
intuition, instead of the mechanistic or teleological and
experimental and positivist represented evolution as
method of the new science, he conditioned either by existing
gave a decisive centrality to forces or by future aims.
this type of approach. Bergson based his theory
(Soltani Gazar, 2012: 61) on the distinction between
He has presented a matter and the élan vital, or
remarkable theory about the life force, the progress of
formation of human life and which he saw as a line
soul. In other words, he is the continually bifurcating or
most important representative diverging from its course.
of the modern philosophy of (Britannica, 2018)
life. (Bocheński and Bocheński, In 2013, in “The
1982: 80) International Encyclopedia of
Bergson’s Creative Evolution Ethics”, Keith Ansell-Pearson
stands as one of the most serious claimed that the most
engagements with the problem important views of Bergson
of life in recent philosophical can be clearly seen in his last
history. (Posteraro, 2022: 553) major book, The Two Sources
of Morality and Religion.
