Élan vital, nisus, and creativity as treated in the thought of H. Bergson, S. Alexander, and A.N. Whitehead.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University === The main problem of this dissertation is to compare and evaluate critically some of the salient aspects of élan vital, nisus, and creativity, as treated by Henri Bergson, Samuel Alexander, and Alfred North Whitehead. A subordinate purpose is present in that thes...

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Main Author: Kauffman, Alvin Harold
Language:en_US
Published: Boston University 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/10786