Bergson and His Philosophy.

Immediate Experience and the Problem of Expression: A Study in the Philosophy of Bergson

art has shown is that the artist mobilizes the static elements of line, color, shape and texture in order to convey a meaning. The movement or play among these formal properties themselves, not only gives fluid expression to the subject presented, but reaches beyond the inert and singular perspective portrayed on the canvas or in the sculpture to capture the very life of the idea or feeling it ...

From the philosophy auditorium to the neurophysiology laboratory and back: from Bergson to Damasio.

Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was probably the most influential French philosopher at the turn of the twentieth century. In 1927 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. Far beyond the restricted academic philosophical milieu, the impact of his thinking reached personalities as diverse as Claude Debussy, Marcel Proust, George Bemard Shaw, and the impressionists. His essay The Laughter (Le Rir...

Maimonides (1135-1204) and his philosophy of medicine.

Moses Maimonides was born in Cordova, the capital of Moorish Spain, on 30 March 1135. His father, Maimon, was a judge of the Jewish religious courts. Until the family fled to Fez in 1159, because of religious persecution, Maimonides was a pupil of the philosopher– physician Averroes (1126–98). From Morocco the family moved on to Palestine and then to Egypt. Shortly after arriving in Cairo, his ...

The Socratic Bergson

khayyam, his philosophy, and stanzas and their translation

hojatt-ol hagh hakim abolfath-e omar ibn-e ebrahim known as khayyam or khayyami, was a philosopher, mathematician, astrologer, and poet of late fifth-early sixth century a.d. for long he was famous for his scientific features, however, later on his stanzas, were introduced to the world, the west in particular, through the translations provided by the nineteenth century british poet fitzgerald. ...