Gerson's philosophical works not only expressed his philosophical thoughts that had a huge impact on the time, but also expressed them in a poetic way, showing excellent skills. In the award speech for awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature, when discussing his masterpiece "The Evolution of Creation", he said: "He has created an astonishingly magnificent poem... from which he can effortlessly derive great beauty. "His writings do not adopt the conceptual or abstract methods commonly used in philosophy, but are rigorous and concise in style, full of color and metaphor, gorgeous in diction, and elegant in style. Literature and art occupy a very important position in Bergson's philosophical thought. In his view, literary art is something special, one of the richest evidences of a continuing creativity. His important treatise "Laughter" (1900) is the work most closely related to literary and artistic thought. In this treatise, he used his understanding of life, memory and self to solve the seemingly simple question of "Why do people laugh?" It is actually quite a complex issue, from which the source of comedy is also studied. Edit this paragraph Philosophical writer Henri Bergson already declared in 1897 in "The Evolution of Creation" that all the most long-lasting and most fruitful philosophical systems are those that originate from intuition. Believe what he said, attention to Bergson's system will immediately show how Bergson enriched the intuitive discovery, which is the entrance to the world of his thought. Bergson's dissertation "On the Immediate Materials of Consciousness" (1889) already showed this discovery, proposing that time is not some abstract or formal expression, but as an eternal concern with life and self. Henri Berg Sen my reality. He called this time "duration." Similar to vitality, this concept can also be expressed as "living time". This kind of time is a dynamic flow, showing constant and eternally increasing quantitative changes. It eschews reflection and cannot be linked to any fixed point, otherwise it would be limited and cease to exist. This time can be perceived by an introspective, focused awareness directed toward the inner source. Completely different from the time we usually measure by the movement of clocks and the movement of the sun, this time is a form created by and for spirit and behavior. After the most sophisticated analysis, Bergson asserted that it was suitable only for spatial forms. This field is permeated by the rigor, certainty and limitation of mathematics. Causes are distinguished from effects. Intelligence covers the spiritual creation of the world and builds a barrier around the inner desire of the spirit to be free. These longings find their satisfaction in "living time": where cause and effect merge, and nothing can be foreseen by certainty, since certainty exists in its own simple act and can only be determined by that act. Living time is the realm of free choice and new creation, where everything can happen only once and never be repeated the same way. The history of personality is born here. This is the reality that frees the spirit and soul (whatever it is called) from the forms and habits of the intellect and enables it to perceive its own nature and self's universal life with inner vision. In his purely scientific narrative, Bergson did not speak of the origin of instinct—perhaps arising from personal experience that has been mastered and explored, or from the crisis of soul liberation. We can only speculate that the dreary atmosphere of rationalist biology that dominated at the end of the last century triggered this crisis. Bergson grew up and was educated under the influence of this science, and by the time he decided to rebel against it, he had mastered extraordinary weapons and acquired a necessary and considerable wealth of knowledge in the field of the conceptual structure of the material world. While the net of rationalism attempts to imprison life, Bergson attempts to prove that dynamic and flowing life can pass through the net without hindrance. Edit this paragraph Later Influence In an unusually thorough refutation of determinism, Bergson demonstrated that the universal intellect (which he called Pierre) could not predict the life of another personality, Paul, unless it could follow Paul's experiences, feelings , all manifestations of the act of will, to the point where they are completely identical with Henri Bergson, just like two identical triangles coincidentally coincident. To fully understand Bergson's readers, they must assimilate themselves to the author to a certain extent and fulfill the great power of the spirit and the great needs of spirituality. It makes sense to trace the author's theoretical flow. When reason lags behind, imagination and intuition can flourish. It is impossible to tell whether the imagination has been seduced, or whether intuition has recognized itself and convinced it. In either case, reading Bergson will always be of great benefit. In his narrative of The Evolution of Creation, Bergson's by far authoritative work, he creates poetry of astonishing grandeur, a cosmogony of sweeping scope and sustained power, without losing sight of a rigorous scientific terminology. It may be difficult to benefit from his thorough analysis or profound thoughts, but it is effortless to gain great beauty from them. If people regard it as a poem, it presents a kind of drama. The world was created by two conflicting tendencies. Of these matter exhibits a descending movement in its consciousness; the second is life with its inherent free emotions and eternal creativity, which is constantly moving towards the insights of knowledge and infinite horizons. These two factors mix and restrict each other. The products of this union branch at different levels. The first fundamental differences are found between the vegetable and animal kingdoms, between non-moving and moving organic activities. Plants store energy extracted from inert substances with the help of sunlight.
The animal is relieved of this basic effort because it can absorb already stored energy from plants and release bursts of energy simultaneously and evenly as needed. At a higher stage, the animal kingdom maintains life at the expense of the animal kingdom and can use this accumulation of energy to strengthen its own development. In this way, the ways of evolution become increasingly diverse, and the choices are by no means blind. Instincts arise with the utilization of organs. The embryonic stage of reason also exists, but intelligence is still inferior to instinct.