{"product_id":"2940013037373","title":"CREATIVE EVOLUTION","description":"INTRODUCTION                                                             ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE EVOLUTION OF LIFE--MECHANISM AND TELEOLOGY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf duration in general--Unorganized bodies and abstract\u003cbr\u003etime--Organized bodies and real duration--Individuality and\u003cbr\u003ethe process of growing old                                                1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf transformism and the different ways of interpreting it--Radical\u003cbr\u003emechanism and real duration: the relation of biology to\u003cbr\u003ephysics and chemistry--Radical finalism and real duration:\u003cbr\u003ethe relation of biology to philosophy                                    23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe quest of a criterion--Examination of the various theories\u003cbr\u003ewith regard to a particular example--Darwin and insensible\u003cbr\u003evariation--De Vries and sudden variation--Eimer and\u003cbr\u003eorthogenesis--Neo-Lamarckism and the hereditability of\u003cbr\u003eacquired characters                                                      59\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eResult of the inquiry--The _vital impetus_                               87\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DIVERGENT DIRECTIONS OF THE EVOLUTION OF\u003cbr\u003eLIFE--TORPOR, INTELLIGENCE, INSTINCT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeneral idea of the evolutionary process--Growth--Divergent\u003cbr\u003eand complementary tendencies--The meaning of progress and of\u003cbr\u003eadaptation                                                               98\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe relation of the animal to the plant--General tendency of\u003cbr\u003eanimal life--The development of animal life                             105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe main directions of the evolution of life: torpor, intelligence,\u003cbr\u003einstinct                                                                135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nature of the intellect                                             151\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe nature of instinct                                                  165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife and consciousness--The apparent place of man in nature             176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eON THE MEANING OF LIFE--THE ORDER OF NATURE\u003cbr\u003eAND THE FORM OF INTELLIGENCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelation of the problem of life to the problem of knowledge--The\u003cbr\u003emethod of philosophy--Apparent vicious circle of the method\u003cbr\u003eproposed--Real vicious circle of the opposite method                    186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimultaneous genesis of matter and intelligence--Geometry\u003cbr\u003einherent in matter--Geometrical tendency of the intellect--Geometry\u003cbr\u003eand deduction--Geometry and induction--Physical laws                    199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSketch of a theory of knowledge based on the analysis of the\u003cbr\u003eidea of Disorder--Two opposed forms of order: the problem\u003cbr\u003eof _genera_ and the problem of _laws_--The idea of\u003cbr\u003e\"disorder\" an oscillation of the intellect between the two\u003cbr\u003ekinds of order                                                          220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreation and evolution--Ideal genesis of matter--The origin\u003cbr\u003eand function of life--The essential and the accidental in the\u003cbr\u003evital process and in the evolutionary movement--Mankind--The\u003cbr\u003elife of the body and the life of the spirit                             236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CINEMATOGRAPHICAL MECHANISM OF THOUGHT AND THE\u003cbr\u003eMECHANISTIC ILLUSION--A GLANCE AT THE HISTORY OF\u003cbr\u003eSYSTEMS--REAL BECOMING AND FALSE EVOLUTIONISM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSketch of a criticism of philosophical systems, based on the\u003cbr\u003eanalysis of the idea of Immutability and of the idea of\u003cbr\u003e\"Nothing\"--Relation of metaphysical problems to the idea\u003cbr\u003eof \"Nothing\"--Real meaning of this idea                                 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForm and Becoming                                                       298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe philosophy of Forms and its conception of Becoming--Plato\u003cbr\u003eand Aristotle--The natural trend of the intellect                       304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecoming in modern science: two views of Time                           329\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe metaphysical interpretation of modern science: Descartes,\u003cbr\u003eSpinoza, Leibniz                                                        345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Criticism of Kant                                                   356\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe evolutionism of Spencer                                             363\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX                                                                   371\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of the evolution of life, incomplete as it yet is, already\u003cbr\u003ereveals to us how the intellect has been formed, by an uninterrupted\u003cbr\u003eprogress, along a line which ascends through the vertebrate series up to\u003cbr\u003eman. It shows us in the faculty of understanding an appendage of the\u003cbr\u003efaculty of acting, a more and more precise, more and more complex and\u003cbr\u003esupple adaptation of the consciousness of living beings to the\u003cbr\u003econditions of existence that are made for them.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47121060692208,"sku":"2940013037373","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013037373_p0.jpg?v=1763575574","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013037373","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}