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Time and Free Will

An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

English translation · Translated by Frank Lubecki Pogson

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Bergson's first book, published in French in 1889, asks what is given directly in conscious experience. He argues that the intensity of a feeling is a matter of quality, not quantity, since measurement belongs to space, and that reality is met as a continuous flow rather than as parts set side by side. From this view come his treatment of duration and of freedom of the will. F. L. Pogson made this English version of 1913 with the author's help, adding marginal summaries and a full index.

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Bergson argued that time as it is lived cannot be the divisible quantity physics measures, and gave it a name, durée. Creative Evolution added the élan vital, a drive running through evolution for which mechanism alone could not account.

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