@article{oai:kitami-it.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006197, author = {三原, 武夫}, issue = {1}, journal = {北見工業大学研究報告}, month = {Mar}, note = {application/pdf, The basic element to determine Bergson’s standpoint of thought is to be found in his attempt to vindicate the spiritual principle in nature and to assert the superior comptence of the intuition. Bergson objects to the usual concept of evolution because it deals exclusively with the products of evolution. True evolution is a continuous creation in which an “elanvital” pushes onward from inside every being in an effort to obtain absolute knowledge concerning the nature of real time, change and creation. This vital impulse is the source of the energy which impels a being to improve itself and to pushover any obstacle which bars the way. Such views, expressed in unique and vigorous language, placed Bergson in square opposition to the modern positivist movement. The principal objection made to the theory of creative evolution is that its use of a mysterious vital impulse and its substitution of intuition for intellect lead to understand his standpoint as a mysticism or romantic philosophy. But is it really so ? At the first glance, his attitude to explore seems like that of an artist. But his direct effort is to examine nature afresh in the light of a more concrete experience and scientific research. It is worthy of remark that science and philosophy are wholly unified in him, and its unification shapes a motive force of his thought. According to such views nature is neither the dead formulae of scientist,nor the abstract canstruction of human intellect, but a productive process that has generated and sustains all vital beings. It seems to us that his doctrine concerning the vital duration is the only way to surmount the domination of mechanistic view of evolution of life, when it is not only an ever-changing now, but also a creative force. In his view of vital duration the nature or the realm of mere appearance will be born anew, we believe}, pages = {125--136}, title = {ベルグソン哲学における《生命》の持続について}, volume = {2}, year = {1967} }