STUDIES IN
BERGSON’S PHILOSOPHY

BY

ARTHUR MITCHELL, Ph. D.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the University of Kansas

LAWRENCE, JANUARY, 1914

PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY

CONTENTS

PART ONE
BERGSON’S PHILOSOPHIC METHOD
Page
Chapter I
The Relation of Philosophic Method to the Definition of Philosophy[9]
Chapter II
Bergson’s Critique of Pure Reason[17]
Chapter III
The Ancient Prejudice against Analysis[26]
PART TWO
BERGSON’S SYSTEM OF DOCTRINE
Chapter I
Ontology and Epistemology[37]
Chapter II
Mind and Matter, Spirit and Body[64]
Chapter III
Doctrine of Freedom[82]
Chapter IV
Bergson’s Abhorrence of Determinateness[94]
Chapter V
The Mystical Yearning of Intuitionism[102]
PART THREE
BERGSON’S GENIUS[107]