Time And Free Will: An Essay On The Immediate Data Of Consciousness Cover
Podcast Mentions

Time And Free Will An Essay On The Immediate Data Of Consciousness

Henri Bergson

""Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness"" is a philosophical treatise written by French philosopher Henri Bergson. The book explores the concept of time and its relationship with human consciousness. Bergson argues that time cannot be measured or understood through scie...

Podcasts 2
Quotes 5
Classic Audiobook Collection

The narrator was engrossed in reading Bergson's *Time and Free Will* in English translation while on a train and was particularly focused on the author's argument regarding freedom and motives.

"

I could not say at which station the woman and her baby entered the train.

— Episode: The Hampdenshire Wonder by J. D. Beresfo...

Episode: The Hampdenshire Wonder by J. D. Beresford ~ Full...

The narrator was engrossed in reading Bergson's *Time and Free Will* in English translation while on a train and was particularly focused on the author's argument regarding freedom and motives.

"

I could not say at which station the woman and her baby entered the train.

Since we had left London, I had been engrossed in Henri Bergson's Time and Free Will as it in the English translation.

I agreed with his conclusion in advance, but I wished to master his reasoning.

It is at the great and solemn crisis decisive of our reputation with others that we choose in defiance of what is conventionally called a motive. And this absence of any tangible reason is the more striking the deeper our freedom goes.

This absence of any tangible reason is the more striking the deeper our freedom goes.

Note: The book recommendations on this page are discovered automatically from podcast transcripts, and may be incorrect or incomplete.