Henri Bergson

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French philosopher who proposed elan vital as the cause of evolution and development (1859-1941)

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After publishing The Concept of Nature in 1920, he served as president of the Aristotelian Society from 1922 to 1923, and Henri Bergson was quoted as saying that Whitehead was "the best philosopher writing in English." Source: Internet

Compare his memorial address on Ravaisson, who died in 1900.) Bergson settled again in Paris in 1888, Henri Bergson: Key Writings, ed. Keith Ansell Pearson and John Mullarkey. Source: Internet

He was influenced by the French philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941), whom he credits along with William James and John Dewey in the preface to Process and Reality. Source: Internet

Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness, Author's Preface. Source: Internet

His reading of L'Évolution Créatrice (The Creative Evolution) by Henri Bergson was, he said, the "catalyst of a fire which devoured already its heart and its spirit." Source: Internet

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