Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2004-08-01 Public domain in the USA. 41 Stephen, Karin 1889 1953 The Misuse of Mind Reading ease score: 42.1 (College-level). Difficult to read. "The Misuse of Mind" by Karin Stephen is a philosophical study written in the early 20th century. The text explores Henri Bergson's critique of intellectualism, emphasizing the limitations of traditional philosophical methods that rely heavily on analysis and classification. The book aims to provide a deeper understanding of Bergson's view on reality, knowledge, and the processes of thought, striving to present a coherent interpretation of his themes and concepts. The opening of the work sets the stage by introducing Bergson's philosophy and its reception among intellectual circles. Stephen elucidates the common criticism of Bergson as promoting a form of intellectual laziness due to his rejection of rigid logical structures in favor of a more fluid understanding of knowledge. She explains that Bergson’s approach calls for a complete shift in mental habits to grasp the nature of reality and knowledge, proposing that true understanding arises from direct experience rather than abstract concepts and categorizations. This initial portion lays the groundwork for a deeper exploration of how our intellectual biases hinder our understanding of facts as they truly are, as opposed to how we conceptually classify them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Bergson, Henri, 1859-1941 Knowledge, Theory of B Text Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics Browsing: Psychiatry/Psychology Browsing: Religion/Spirituality/Paranormal 169340 169383 2024-10-03T08:48:06.506925 2023-10-03T08:05:56.842949 text/html text/html 167680 2020-01-21T18:30:40 text/html; charset=utf-8 104449 2020-12-29T14:45:31 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 128722 2024-10-03T08:48:11.534901 application/epub+zip 127899 2024-10-03T08:48:08.565917 application/epub+zip 127900 2024-10-03T08:48:07.208928 application/epub+zip 253594 2024-10-03T08:48:13.876903 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 241894 2024-10-03T08:48:10.798008 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 218882 2022-09-03T11:20:33.748426 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 159454 159482 2024-10-03T08:48:06.158979 2023-10-03T08:05:56.568943 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 159725 2020-06-21T05:38:30 text/plain; charset=utf-8 52198 2020-12-29T14:45:31 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 19630 2024-10-03T08:48:14.003891 application/rdf+xml 14097 2024-10-03T08:48:07.756915 image/jpeg 3653 2024-10-03T08:48:07.480928 image/jpeg 122990 2024-10-03T08:48:06.520929 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia