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The Most Important Application of Self-knowledge… T.S. Amini et al (135
the present and true Duration before it becomes a
duration, and life is like the methodological basis in order
activity of the self-conscious to be gradually elevated to the
being, continuous invention and status of a philosophical
creation. (Bergson, 1969: 24) method. (Deleuze, 1997: 1)
Bergson believes that in a
Paying attention to the world that “dies and comes
interior leads to a sensual back to life at every moment”,
intuition, which is sometimes (Foroughi, 2020: 187) it is
called the inner eye or impossible to think except in
mystical revelation, and it an evolutionary way, and
becomes possible only for transformation requires a
those who have purified their duration.
souls and are free from vices According to his
and sins. continuityist attitude, Bergson
Therefore, Bergson’s method also attributes the category of
is intuition. Intuition is not change to the soul. In his
just a vague feeling or opinion, the soul is nothing
inspiration; But one of the but the continuation of the
most detailed methods of situation. Here, Bergson
philosophy, which has its own assigns all efforts to intuition
of continuity and continuation
hard and complicated rules: to a self that is itself
Rules that require “Accuracy” continuous, and accordingly,
in philosophy, according to the intuiting observer becomes
Bergson. an epistemological authority
Bergson emphasizes that for the understanding of the
intuition must presuppose duration.
