L’Évolution créatrice
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L’Évolution créatrice is a 1907 philosophical work by Henri Bergson that explores the nature of life, creativity, and evolution through a critique of mechanistic and finalistic explanations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| L'Évolution créatrice | 1 |
| L’Évolution créatrice canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: L’Évolution créatrice Context triple: [élan vital, developedInWork, L’Évolution créatrice]
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La Vie de l’humanité
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The Origin of the World
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: L’Évolution créatrice Target entity description: L’Évolution créatrice is a 1907 philosophical work by Henri Bergson that explores the nature of life, creativity, and evolution through a critique of mechanistic and finalistic explanations.
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A.
Man the Creator
Man the Creator was a themed area within Montreal’s Man and His World exhibition that highlighted human ingenuity, innovation, and the power of technological and artistic creation.
-
B.
Le Règne Animal
Le Règne Animal is a foundational 19th-century zoological work by Georges Cuvier that systematically classifies the animal kingdom and helped establish modern comparative anatomy.
-
C.
L’Ève future
L’Ève future is a late-19th-century French science fiction novel by Villiers de l’Isle-Adam that explores artificial life, idealized femininity, and the philosophical implications of technology through the creation of an android woman.
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D.
La Vie de l’humanité
La Vie de l’humanité is a symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau that reflects his visionary, allegorical style and forms part of the collection at the Musée Gustave Moreau in Paris.
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E.
The Origin of the World
The Origin of the World is an 1866 realist oil painting by Gustave Courbet that provocatively depicts a close-up view of a woman's genitals, challenging 19th-century artistic and social conventions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| author | Henri Bergson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| critiques |
finalistic explanations of life
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mechanistic explanations of life ⓘ |
| field |
history of ideas
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philosophy ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| firstPublisher | Félix Alcan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
metaphysics
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philosophy of biology ⓘ philosophy of life ⓘ |
| hasKeyConcept |
creative evolution
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duration (durée) ⓘ intuition ⓘ opposition between intellect and intuition ⓘ élan vital ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapters
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introduction ⓘ |
| hasTranslation | Creative Evolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced |
Alfred North Whitehead
NERFINISHED
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French philosophy in the 20th century ⓘ Gilles Deleuze NERFINISHED ⓘ William James NERFINISHED ⓘ process philosophy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Charles Darwin
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French spiritualism ⓘ Herbert Spencer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
creativity
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critique of finalism ⓘ critique of mechanism ⓘ evolution ⓘ nature of life ⓘ time and duration ⓘ élan vital ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
evolution as a creative process
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life as continuous creation of unforeseeable novelty ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| partOf | Henri Bergson’s major philosophical works ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool |
process philosophy
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vitalism ⓘ |
| placeOfPublication | Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| proposes |
a creative, open-ended view of life
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a non-mechanistic account of evolution ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1907 ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Matter and Memory
NERFINISHED
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Time and Free Will NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedTitle | Creative Evolution NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Subject: L’Évolution créatrice Description of subject: L’Évolution créatrice is a 1907 philosophical work by Henri Bergson that explores the nature of life, creativity, and evolution through a critique of mechanistic and finalistic explanations.
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