The Depths of the Wind-Holding Soul: Sustenance Opens the Source of Religion and Morality (1890s) Bergson, "Time and Freedom"

The Depths of the Wind-Holding Soul: Sustenance Opens the Source of Religion and Morality (1890s) Bergson, "Time and Freedom"
Bergson divided the experience of time into external homogeneous time and internal pure duration, the latter of which he considered to be the source of religiosity and morality. External time sustains social order and institutional morality, but truly moral acts are born when the duration of personality condenses into a moment and crystallizes creatively as an act of freedom. Freedom is neither the result of external cause and effect nor a random fluctuation, but a leap that is generated by the qualitative state of the entire personality. Religiosity also arises naturally when one experiences life as a flow of meaning and continuity with the world, supported by a deepening of inner persistence rather than rituals and dogmas. Modern religious studies, ethics, and neuroscience have shown that moral judgments are based not on the mere application of rules, but on the integration of the inner self, including the sympathetic narrative and the long-term self-image, which overlaps w
ith Bergson's insight. Religion, morality, and freedom are not external frameworks, but rather aspects of a creative continuum that emerges from the maturation of a sustained personality.