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Religion and science: difference and repetition - an investigation starting from the moral and religious conception of Henri Bergson

The focus of this article is the investigation of the relation between religion and science, taking as the horizon of departure the moral and religious conceptions of the philosopher Henri Bergson. The historical field of the investigation will initially be located via the traces of Bergson's life and works, considering this localization as important for delimiting the historical limits of all conceptions regarding world and value. Following this, the general plan of moral and religious conceptions in Bergson will be presented, from which we will seek to comprehend and describe the creative plane of his religious conception in the historical evolution of the human species. Taking the vast Bergsonian corpus as the starting point for a comprehension of morality, religion, and science today, we will highlight the relation between static and dynamic, and the closed and open forms of the human being. One interpolates the Mechanical and Mystical into the knowledge and information society, into its differences and repetitions, into its new, surprising, and contradictory expressions, be they mechanical, or mystical. The mechanics of the global knowledge and information society, also entail new mysticisms, and new forms of collective commotion and social engagement.

Religion and Science; Moral philosophy; Henri Bergson; Mechanics and Mysticism; Religion and the Mystical


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