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Henri Bergson›Time and Free Will›Full Text

Time and Free Will

Time and Free Will

Henri Bergson · 1889

4 chapters · 145 pages · Original text

Public domain · Project Gutenberg

Chapters

I — The Intensity of Psychic States

~89 min · 45 pages

II — The Multiplicity of Conscious States: The Idea of Duration

~81 min · 40 pages

III — The Organization of Conscious States: Free Will

~102 min · 50 pages

~21 min · 10 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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