著者

川端 繁之

出版者

北海道大学哲学会

雑誌

哲学 (ISSN:02872560)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.41, pp.103-120, 2005-07-17

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It is common knowledge among philosophical researchers that modern philosophy began with Descartes's "cogito". And there might be no objection to calling modern philisophy "philosophy of self-consciousness". H.Bergson found his philosophical starting-point in immediate self-knowledge, "durée pure". As such we can say that his philosophy belongs to the ancestry of self consciousness philosophy. If so, a problem will arise. :What is his own contribution to philosophy? I found an answer by interpreting and extending the concept of "schéme moteur" which is found in his second main book, "Matter and Memory". The answer is a tri-structure which is composed of three moments, "actual", "virtual", and "medium". I propose to regard this structure as the archetype of signification, moreover, to extend it to the ontological principle. And I call this the "semiotic process". My intention is to give some logical form to Bergson's idea which some people often criticize as just being a metaphor. In this sense I think it can be said that "semiotic process" is another name for "élan vital". The making Bergson's "hidden logic" clearer by finding out the "semitic process" is the main theme of this paper.