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Creative Evolution

Creative Evolution

Henri Bergson · 1907

5 chapters · 290 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

~10 min · 5 pages

I — The Evolution of Life: Mechanism and Teleology

~151 min · 74 pages

II — The Divergent Directions of the Evolution of Life: Torpor, Intelligence, Instinct

~137 min · 67 pages

III — On the Meaning of Life: The Order of Nature and the Form of Intelligence

~137 min · 66 pages

IV — The Cinematographical Mechanism of Thought and the Mechanistic Illusion

~160 min · 78 pages

About this text

First published in 1748, this work represents Hume's mature empiricist philosophy — a reworking of ideas from his earlier Treatise of Human Nature.

Hume argues that all knowledge derives from sensory experience and that reason alone cannot establish matters of fact.

Text sourced from Project Gutenberg (public domain).

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