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Philosophy in France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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In his two volumes on Intuitive Thought Professor Edouard Le Roy continues his idealistic interpretation of spiritual creativity, and turns from its ‘products’ manifested in biological and human evolution to consider its most intimate character, as it is ‘lived through’ or directly experienced in intuitive and inventive thinking. The whole plan and its execution are determined by two characteristic themes of Bergsonism—intuition and the dynamical schema—though these are repensès in a quite original way. “Intuitive thought” and “metaphysical thought,” M. Le Roy affirms in the preface, are “one and the same”; the latter is condemned only by those who misconceive the former. So by correcting misunderstandings he seeks to

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Philosophical Survey
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1934

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page 343 note 1 Roy, Edouard Le, La Pensée intuitive: I—Au deli du Discours (pp. 204; Fr. 15)Google Scholar: II—Invention et Vérification (pp. 296; Fr. 20), both in the collection “Bibliotheque de la Revue des Cours et Conferences.” Paris: Boivin.

page 343 note 2 Cf. M. Le Roy’s Interpretation of Evolution,” Philosophy, IX, 33, 01 1934, pp. 8993.Google Scholar

page 345 note 1 James, William, Principles of Psychology, I, ch. ix, especially pp. 243244.Google Scholar