BERGSON’S DURATION INTUITION AND FREE WILL: AN OVERVIEW
BERGSON’S DURATION INTUITION AND FREE WILL: AN OVERVIEW

Summary/Abstract: Bergson's metaphysics and epistemology are founded on the concepts of duration as ultimate reality and intuition as the method of true knowledge. Bergson differentiates between the objective experience of time and the subjective experience of time. The objective experience of time is spatialized, scientific, external, and physical time based on measurement, divisibility, clock, and astrolabe. The subjective experience of time is a complete, continuous, immediate, internal, and indivisible duration. Bergson uses intuition as a methodology to understand duration. He asserts that intuition explains the nature of duration, and to attain intuition, metaphysics must transcend scientific materialism and be liberated from its identities and symbolic representations. He considers the possibility of real freedom with intuitive understanding of change and movement. This paper explains Bergson’s metaphysical concept of duration as the ultimate nature of reality, and the method of intuition as the sole means to describe the reality, and the possibility of freedom.

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