Dani Barki Minkovicius

The objective of this work was to study what was called the beginning of Bergsonism, comprising, by such definition, both the first philosophical effort undertaken by Bergson, and notably presented in his work Time and Free Will, as well as, and as a constituent part of this effort, the meaning of the Bergsonian philosophical activity. In other words, the intention of the study was to investigate the very meaning of Bergsonism; its introduction and then its general coherence as a philosophy; that is, its uniqueness as a philosophical intuition, converging to what would be the deep philosophical intuition of "Philosophy". In this sense, before delving into the in-depth study of TFW, it was imperative to discover the correct meaning of the philosophical attitude, according to Bergson, what, thus, led to the development of what would be philosophy and, moreover, what would be the "philosophical intuition". That's how the move made went further, from the precise philosophical method, in its essential amalgamation with meditation itself, to its right placement as an "expression of duration". This primordial dive revealed, at last and from then on, what - in all its complexity - would follow; not as an anticipation, but as a necessary and irreducible becoming, in such a way that one was led, now effectively, to (re)start the study, actually entering into the specific philosophical effort that configured the beginnings of Bergsonism. Thus, the work followed the philosopher himself to, alongside him, carry out the philosophy described in TFW. However, based on what was discovered about the intuitive method (the one that is genuinely accurate to philosophy), the complexity and breadth of carrying out such a task was perceived, encompassing what was detailed as a movement "at once positive and critical", meaning the demand for the pure positive study of the profound reality and the critical-negative study of intellectual and pragmatic thought, common sense, science and philosophical tradition - which made the study of TFW an immediate plunge into the pure senses of reality as well as a prolonged study of knowledge and experiences that, in their superficial sense, still constitute existence in its complex and deep plurality. Therefore, this means that the work that followed included attentive comments attentive on the text wording as well as content, turning to, particularly, empirical experiences linked to the affective and aesthetic domains, scientific experiments focused on psychology and, even more specifically, to psychophysics, and philosophical experiences most relevant at the time, as the philosophy of Kant, but also that of Aristotle, among others. In short, this is how the work was developed, encompassing different levels to, eventually, unveil the different levels of the real, finally revealing the real itself, in what it deeply means within and through the existences of duration, space and the relationship between both, giving rise to different rhythms of the same profound reality; opening the sense of differentiation and immanence, of the different experiences and the convergence of all, of the profound meaning of "expression" and of the experience, or not, of freedom.