tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post1493588437667315443..comments2024-01-08T00:08:53.008+00:00Comments on ombhurbhuva: Bergson and the Indexombhurbhuvahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-1105533036784072382016-02-21T23:10:32.331+00:002016-02-21T23:10:32.331+00:00Skholiast:
Well Eliot was the arch elitist, Anglo-...Skholiast:<br />Well Eliot was the arch elitist, Anglo-Catholic Royalist. At the same time he attended Bergson’s lectures in Paris at the College de France and there is discernable influence in his great poem <i>Four Quartets</i>.<br /><br />I think the charge of irrationalism is overstated. He emphasised the contrast between the instinctual and the rational, the former being the ground out of which basic morality arose. (<i>Two Sources</i>) I’m in the middle of a first reading of that book but as I understand it religion is the spur to a more complete universalisable morality. Reason takes what is given and imagines it has constructed it. <br /><br /> <br />ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7781646534201708629.post-50759094761492664702016-02-21T22:48:03.943+00:002016-02-21T22:48:03.943+00:00The reactions against Bergson have often been bewi...The reactions against Bergson have often been bewildering to me, and make me suspect I am either missing something important, or something extremely trivial. Benda seems to have nursed a career-long animus against him. Eliot was typically arch and dismissive -- he refers somewhere to an "epidemic of Bergsonisms" -- but I think this is an elitist recoil against what he considered a trendy philosophy <i>de jour</i>. Some seem to feel he was fomenting a sort of irrationalism. I can almost see this sometimes, but it seems to me a rather selective, not to say hypersensitive, reading of him -- not to mention a critique that can also be made of any number of other figures who are in apparently much better standing. Plato, say. skholiasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.com