Henri Bergson
Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985) held the chair in moral philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne from 1951 to 1978, and was the author of more than twenty books on philosophy and music.
Alexandre Lefebvre is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is the coeditor of
Nils F. Schott is James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and the translator of several books, including
Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985) held the chair in moral philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne from 1951 to 1978, and was the author of more than twenty books on philosophy and music.
Alexandre Lefebvre is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is the coeditor of
Nils F. Schott is James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and the translator of several books, including
Vladimir Jankélévitch (1903-1985) held the chair in moral philosophy at the University of Paris-Sorbonne from 1951 to 1978, and was the author of more than twenty books on philosophy and music.
Alexandre Lefebvre is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He is the coeditor of
Nils F. Schott is James M. Motley Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and the translator of several books, including
Heroism and Saintliness
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Published:August 2015
In this chapter, Jankélévitch shows that Bergson’s The Two Sources of Morality and Religion adds one more antithesis—that of two moralities and two religions—to the oppositions of space and duration in Time and Free Will, pure perception and pure recollection in Matter and Memory, intelligence and instinct in Creative Evolution. There are no gradations between static and dynamic morality, between closed and open religion; it is with love as it is with movement: to find it, it must first be given, and all at once. Jankélévitch shows that for Bergson open morality and dynamic religion require a conversion, and that the maximalism of Two Sources takes the form a mediation of the punctual instant and emergence.
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