| 单词 | creative evolution |
| 释义 | > as lemmascreative evolution creative evolution n. [after French L'Évolution créatrice (title of book by H. L. Bergson, 1907)] (in the philosophy of Henri Bergson) continuous change and development, conceived as an inherent property of the universe. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > absolute idealism > [noun] > Bergsonism and its adherents > elements of supraconsciousness1879 creative evolution1908 1908 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 5 606 The active principle of life Bergson describes by the phrase tendency to create. Its movement is a creative evolution. 1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah p. lxxviii Creative Evolution is already a religion, and is indeed now unmistakably the religion of the twentieth century. 1981 E. R. Harrison Cosmology xx. 395/2 In Bergson's theory of creative evolution the world of material things is orderly and deterministic, whereas the élan vital, the breath of life, is creative and free. 2001 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 45 321 Kazantzakis's profound interest in the idea of creative evolution, espoused by his teacher Henri Bergson, accounts for his attraction to, but ultimate desire to transcend, communism. < as lemmas |
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