He is most famous for positing that a certain concept was not mechanistic as Darwin had proposed, but rather it was fueled by an impulse he dubbed "élan vital."
He's not Karl Popper, but this philosopher wrote about "closed" and "open" societies and their associated religious preferences in one work, while another of his works uses the language disorder aphasia to show that the two title concepts are independent of each other. His collection The Creative Mind contains an essay which discusses the discovery process of "intuition"; that work is entitled "An Introduction to Metaphysics." In addition to The Two Sources of Morality and Religion and Matter (*) and Memory, this philosopher also analyzed the role of the comic in society in his essay "Laughter" and distinguished "clock time" from "duration" in Time and Free Will. He is most famous for positing that a certain concept was not mechanistic as Darwin had proposed, but rather it was fueled by an impulse he dubbed "élan vital." For 10 points, name this French philosopher, the author of Creative Evolution.
He's not Karl Popper, but this philosopher wrote about "closed" and "open" societies and their associated religious preferences in one work, while another of his works uses the language disorder aphasia to show that the two title concepts are independent of each other.
Henri-Louis {Bergson}