Creative evolution

Introduction
Chapter I: the evolution of live - mechanism and telelogy
Of duration in general
Unorganized bodies and abstract time
Organized bodies and real duration
Individuality and the process of growing old
Of transformism and the different ways of interpreting it
Radical mechanism and real duration: the relation of biology to physics and chemistry
Radical finalism and real duration: the relation of biology to philosophy
The quest of a criterion
Examiniation of the various theories with regards to a particular example
Darwin and insensible variation
De Vries and sudden variation
Eimer and orthogenesis
Neo-Lamarkism and the hereditability of acquired characters
Result of the inquiry
The vital impetus

Chapter II: The divergent directions of the evolution of live-Torpor, intelligence, instinct
General idea of the evolutionary process
Growth
Divergent and complementary tendencies
The meaning of progress and of adaptation
The relation of the animal to the plant
General tendency of animal live
The development of animal life
The main directions of the evolution of live: topor, intelligence, instinct
The nature of the intellect
The nature of instinct
Life and conciousness
The apparent place of man in nature

Chapter III: On the meaning of live, the order of nature and the form of intelligence
Relation of the problem of life the problem of knowledge
The method of philosophy
Apparent vicious circle of the method proposed
Real vicious circle of the opposite method
Simultaneous genesis of matter and intelligence
Geometry inherent in matter
Geometrical tendency of the intellect
Geometry and deduction
Geometry and induction
Physical laws
Sketch of a theory of knowledge based on the analysis of the idea of disorder
Two opposed forms of order: the problem of genera and the problem of laws
The idea of "disorder" an oscillation of the intellect between the two kinds of order
Creation and evolution
Ideal genesis of matter
The origin and function of live
The essential and the accidental in the vital process and in the evolutionary movement
Mankind
The life of the body and the life of the spirit

Chapter IV: The cinema to graphical mechanism of thought and the mechanistic illusion: A glance at the history of systems: Real becoming and false evolutionism
Sketch of a criticism of philosophical systems, based on the analysis of the idea of immutability and of the idea of "Nothing"
Relation of metaphysical problems the idea of "Nothing"
Real meaning of this idea
Form and becoming
The philosophy of forms and its conception of becoming
Plato and Aristotle
The natural trend of the intellect
Becoming in modern science: two views of time
The metaphysical interpretation of modern science: Descarteds, Spinoza, Leibniz
The criticism of Kant
The evolutionism of Spencer

Published Mineola, N.Y. : Dover, 1998

Language English

Material xv, 407 ;

ISBN 0486400360

B 2430 .B4 B4997 1998 C.1

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