
Self-Knowledge
Overthink
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Is Einstein Bergson a Rationalist or an Irrationalist Philosopher?
einstein bergson was one of the most famous philosophers of the twentieth century. He cost a new york's first traffic jam when he gave a lecture at, i think it was n yyou or some other university new York. Some people have said that his fall from fame is due to being seen as anti-science and irrational. But for Bergson, the intuition of our own duration is a kind of self knowledge we gain through introspection. The difference is that it's not cognitive and it's not intellectual. It is embodied and effective.
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