Levent Bayraktar
Bergson is one of the philosophers awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In his age, his lectures and conferences were followed with interest by a large fan base. The fact that it has a wide culture and strong rhetoric has a great share in this. Referring to the sciences, but not a scientist and a positivist, Bergson, without limiting thought to phenomena, directs it to the highest issues that the human mind wonders and questions. In his works; As a result of sound judgment, analysis and criticism, it presents a proposal that exceeds the given one. His philosophy, which he based on the fields of mathematics, physics, biology, psychology, sociology and even theology; It is like an example that a metaphysics that can be integrated with the sciences can be possible and legitimate. In this respect, reading and studying Bergson also means learning philosophy from a philosopher who expands the boundaries of philosophy.
In this book, the place and position of Bergson's philosophy in the history of philosophy is examined based on the relationship between the soul and the body. Thus, the work deals with Bergson's metaphysics on the one hand, and on the other
It offers the opportunity to encounter the soul-body relationship and, on the other hand, many philosophical schools. In this context, currents such as materialism, positivism, naturalism, intellectualism, criticalism, parallelism, finalism, mechanism, evolutionism come to the fore and are examined.