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Guest Matt Teichman (from the Elucidations podcast) introduces Bergson’s essay “An Introduction to Metaphysics.”
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Nicely done. Your concluding remarks reminded me of a simple statement from a humanities prof “holding to faith and reason makes us schizophrenic.”
It seeme important in the discussion to mention the role Bertrand Russel played in public and private acions to humiliate Henri. Was it analytic v phenomenological, or simply jealousy of a peer’s fame. I think Deluze talks about this a bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_%28fallacy%29
Great precog … but it’s the first time in the history of my podcast player that I had to switch from speed 1.1 down to 0.9 to hear what was going on. 🙂