Instinct, Intelligence, Tools And Organs
Bergson attempts, in Creative Evolution, to sketch out the progress of life ascending up to man. It is from and examination of this progression, Bergson maintains that we can shed some light on the emergence of intellect and instinct, two modes of action, allowing an individual to "secure the perfect fitting of out body to its environment." (1) For Bergson, it is important to accompany his attempts at a theory of life with a theory of knowledge.
"A theory of life that is not accompanied by a criticism of knowledge is obliged to accept, as they stand, the concepts which the understanding puts at its disposal: it can but enclose the facts, willing or not, in pre-existing frames which it regards as ultimate. On the other hand, a theory of knowledge which does not replace the intellect in the general evolution of life will teach us neither how the frames of knowledge have been constructed nor how we can enlarge or go beyond them. It is necessary that these two inquiries, theory of......
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