Duration And Life

Henri·Bergson is the originator of French spirit, one of the most famous philosophers of early 20th century, and the main representative of life philosophy. His ideas produced profound influence in philosophy, literature, science, politics, and art fields. In the western "accented Bergson" of recent years, this essay tries to comb philosophy's core concept of Bergson, and tries to use the views of the life philosophy to enlighten the modern scienceand technology.Bergson thinks that many problems of modern society mostly produced in this material and spiritual imbalances. Traditional metaphysics cannot solve the problem, the biggest reason it is that it tries to use reason to understanding of life. While life is eternal flowing, changing and creating, grasp life through duration. Bergson philosophy is the core of duration as a concept, Bergson philosophy throughout the core concept in the ontology, equivalent to its philosophical concept, as his life philosophy is idealism that stretches as ontology category expression is also spirit was exist .With the old continuous Bergson to reform itself, with its as the starting point and power.He clarified the state of consciousness, which caused that enshrouds real sexual things primordial consciousness materials ruled out the fields of consciousness. Remove something attached to attribute, the left spatial is those who truly heterogeneous diversity– a kind of "continued" thing, namely stretches. Stretches embodies the rheological, heterogeneous, diversity, as the time is really removed from the inner world of the space; treat it as a purely memory of people's life. As a purely original self, it provides possibility to the realization of human liberty. So if someone wants to understand the meaning of stretching, he must analyze the relationship between stretch and time, memory, and self, grasp the stretch of the continuous flood of the time and one integrated mass of pure memory, and eventually hold for personality deepestself. Bergson regarded duration as life impulse , which has the real quality of metaphysics . He believed that the world can be understood as a whole unit in the flowing, everything is flowing. The reason why people think things are motionless, because they put things natural decomposition, and distorts the natural things so that the original color of the world is changed. The meaning and value of life lies in the endless creation process. The process of life impulse becoming everything is equal to the theory in the ontology of Bergson's philosophy, which is an important part of his life philosophy based on the duration.It has positive significance to understand Bergsonism in the new time."The moral and religious Bergson two sources"of Bergson is based on the life theory, showing reflection of modern society and profound of Bergson. For Bergson, the machine world has become the cover of human life; people lost the direction in the physical world, and forgot in the most original meaning of life. But Bergson didn't lose the optimistic altitude of technology and future; he thought that humans would eventually go to a new free society. It is an important enlightenment to the people understands modern technology and freedom.Bergsonism although exists some problems,? it reflects the most essential thought at that time .And it affects philosophy, science and art in twentieth century. It has the important enlightenment to us about the life essence, science and technology, social research and development. Bergson'philosophy still have vitality and the practical significance.