With The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, a mature work, Henri Bergson (1859-1941) tries to respond, in the midst of a crisis of European conscience, to the problem of malaise in social life. Through the contrast between moral and open society, on the one hand, and moral and closed society, on the other, to which correspond, respectively, dynamic religion and static religion, The Two Sources investigates the forms of affirmation of life, with its most evolved expression in mystical experience.
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- «Considered one of the most relevant works of Henri Bergson (1859-1941),“ The two sources of morality and religion ”has just been reissued in Spanish with a translation and edition by Jaime de Salas and José Atencia. The French writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927, defends in this work the superiority of the spirit over intelligence and advocate...read more