INTELLIGENCE AND SUPERSTITION IN BERGSON: THE MYTHMAKING FUNCTION
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https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol6Iss1a10Keywords:
Bergson, intelligence, superstition, fable, religionAbstract
This article examines the notion of “myth-making function” according to the latest work of Henri Bergson: Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). We will see that, in this book, the philosopher tells us that superstition emerges as a kind of precaution created by nature itself against the dangers that could happen to human beings, just for being intelligent ones.
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