Beyond the clock: freedom, creativity, and life according to Bergson
With JULIA URABAYEN, Professor in department Political Science and Sociology
150 years ago, a philosopher was born in Paris who turned many seemingly untouchable ideas upside down. While some spoke of logic and reason, Henri Bergson dared to talk about intuition, freedom, creativity, and lived time.
A thinker who asked himself questions that we have all asked ourselves at some point: Why do we feel that time sometimes flies and sometimes stands still? Are we truly free? Can the world be understood solely through formulas?
With Julia Urabayen, professor in department Political Science and Sociology at the University of Navarra, we discover why this philosopher still has something to say to us a century and a half later.
Lessons learned from this episode:
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Who was Henri Bergson, and why is he still relevant today?
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Intuition versus reason: another way of knowing
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The experience of time: from the clock to lived time
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Creativity as a force of life
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"Laughter" and the value of humor in social life
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Inner freedom: being free is not doing what I want, but creating myself.
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Science and evolution: how he dialogued with Darwin without renouncing spirituality
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From fashionable to forgotten... and back in style again
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What Bergson can teach us in a fast-paced and technologically advanced world
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Where to start reading Bergson?