1st Edition
Henri Bergson and the Philosophy of Religion God, Freedom, and Duration
Part 1: Time and Consciousness
1. Bergson on Time and Space
2. Unreal Time or Real Duration? McTaggart and Bergson
3. Relative Existence: Towards a New Bergsonian Theory of Time
Part 2: God, Time, and Freedom
4. Eternity and Bergsonian Time
5. Bergson and the Foreknowledge Problem
6. Bergsonian Freedom and Divine Causality
Conclusion
Biography
Matyáš Moravec is Gifford Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, UK. His published work has appeared in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, the International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, and The Bergsonian Mind (Routledge, 2022).
“This is an ambitious and persuasive appropriation of Bergson’s thinking aiming to address one of the perennial problems of theism: the relation of divine foreknowledge to human freedom. Moravec’s ground-breaking and barrier-breaking book will be required reading for all those interested in the philosophy of religion.”
Mark Sinclair, Queen’s University Belfast
“This is a unique contribution to the field bringing together analytic and continental philosophical reflections on God, time, and free will. Moravec offers a fascinating and lucid reconstruction of Bergson’s thought, and creatively draws out the implications for contemporary debates within the philosophy of religion.”
R.T. Mullins, University of Lucerne
