Lenguaje y Realidad en la Filosofía Bergsoniana

Abstract

Intuition, which means «coincidence» of consciousness with the object known directly in the depths of his being, is reached when transcends concepts. According to Bergson‘s philosophy, language resembles a veil interposed between objects and consciousness, which can only provide an external knowledge of things, but not an absolute knowledge of them. As reality changes constantly, and it is observed in continuity, intelligence cleaves and immobilizes the real with the practical goal of manipulating matter to satisfy multiple interests of human life. With language, whose original function was to conversational communication that would allow cooperation between individuals in their society, intelligence has managed to replace material things and conscious states by concepts, and relatively fixed words. Thought, language, and perception, according to Bergson, imply the existence (de jure) of an unchanging and motionless reality.