University of Kansas,
January, 1914.
PART ONE
BERGSON’S PHILOSOPHIC METHOD
Chapter I
THE RELATION OF PHILOSOPHIC METHOD TO THE DEFINITION OF PHILOSOPHY
One of the problems of philosophy is the nature of philosophy itself. In recognizing such a problem at all, I suppose, the beginning of its solution has been made. For the very question, what is this or that? is conditioned on an incipient definition of the subject of it, a discriminating acknowledgement of it as something in particular, and, so, as something already more or less qualified or defined. Certainly there would be no common problem and no difference of theory without such initial agreement as a point of reference in disagreeing.