
Naar
aanleiding van het verschijnen van een nieuwe vertaling van
Henri
Bergson, De creatieve evolutie.
Vertaald door Joke van Zijl. Leusden: ISVW Uitgevers, 2019 - zie daarover Mark
Leegsma “Waarom Bergson?" in de nieuwe i-Filosofie
#44 - PDF
breng
ik graag dit blog ter aanvulling op het blog van 08-07-2014: "Henri Bergson (1859 -1941)
had ambivalente houding t.o.v. Spinoza." Aan de aldaar gegeven
bibliografie voeg ik graag het volgende toe:
Gregory
Dale Adamson reviewde Henri Bergson: Evolution,
time and philosophy. In: World
Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research, Vol 54 [1999], #2, 135-162
Abstract: Evolutionary
theory is hindered by the conflict between the apparently antagonistic
principles of its two founding figures, Darwin and Lamarck. Bergson's Creative
Evolution outlines the means of transcending this impasse. If the evolutionary
process is conceived as enduring then the atomistic model of static genetic
states is never fully realisable. In the light of this, Bergson considers the
germ‐plasm to be essentially “fluid.” If there is to be influence on the
germ‐line it will be primarily in terms of the manner in which the genetic data
is unfolded. In order to designate this influence Bergson introduces the
concept of the “tendency.” The tendency will be explicated in relation to
contemporary evolutionary biology. However, as the concept signifies that which
is given only in the duration in which information is elaborated, it is
precluded from representation. Bergson demonstrates that it is the evolutionary
principle of continuous transformation which constitutes the limit to any
scientific of view. For this reason, science needs to be complemented by a
philosophical account of the duration of process.” [cf. tandfonline, cf. PDF op BookSC]
Hiernaar
verwijs ik daar een jaar later van dezelfde auteur verscheen:







