ABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is to present, taking as reference Henri Bergson’s philosophy (1859-1941) and Claude Bernard’s (1813-1878) experimental physiology, two analogous efforts, despite a lack of direct relation in terms of their origins, resulting from some obligations posed to the subject of knowledge who takes life as a matter of theoretical analysis. Authorized by Bergson himself, we will try to show, within a scientific practice represented by Claude Bernard’s experimental physiology, an attitude towards organic facts that is not the monopoly of a philosophy which seeks to elucidate the conditions and limits of life knowledge, a theoretical problem which, in the twentieth century French philosophy finds in the Creative Evolution (1907) its essential expression.
Keywords
Science; philosophy; life; knowledge