Para além da inteligência: a intuição bergsoniana e a duração na fluidez da vida

Abstract

To study the evolution, according to the vision of Henri Bergson, implies to consider it as a slow consolidation work, and, hereafter, fundamentally associated with the notion of time. Time means creation and evolution of both life and matter. To the apprehension of real time, or duration, as Bergson prefers, the author proposes the intuition as a method. The novelty in this philosophy, within the sphere of knowledge, stays in the effort to overtake the instrumental character of intelligence. At a first glance, it seems to be notorious the opposition between intuition and intelligence: the first, strongly linked to life; the second, related to the inert matter. Our investigation was, at first, in the way to elucidate this dichotomy. We saw, however, that both, intuition and intelligence, have a common root, they derive from a same reality, in spite of dissociating their potencies. By searching the genesis of intuition within the evolution process, Bergson found in the intelligence a life defense element. Along the trajectory of evolution, the intuition even though in a merely instinctive form was being gradually abandoned by the conscience, which came to be constituted almost entirely by the intelligence, prioritizing the matter conquer, and therefore unsuitable to the apprehension of the real. Through both modes of conscious activity, since they are complementary and interdependent, the humanity could fully reach its development. In this context, we will point out the inadequacy of the notion of anti-intellectualism, with which Bergson philosophy has been often associated. Finally, our purpose is to show that to understand the evolution, under the bergsonian concept, is to related the life to the duration, just like a continuous novelty that confounds itself with the creation.