{"id":1244,"date":"2012-10-11T17:04:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T16:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2020-07-27T21:53:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T20:53:24","slug":"bergson-a-machine-for-the-making-of-gods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/bergson-a-machine-for-the-making-of-gods\/","title":{"rendered":"Bergson: A Machine for the Making of Gods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Keith Ansell-Pearson\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Simon Glendinning<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_publiclecturesandevents\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/publiclecturesandevents\/20121011_1830_bergsonAMachineForTheMakingOfGods.mp3\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday 11 October, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/soc\/philosophy\/people\/faculty\/pearson\/\"><strong>Keith Ansell-Pearson<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick<\/p>\n<p>Chair:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/staff\/academicStaff\/glendinning\/home.aspx\"><strong>Simon Glendinning<\/strong><\/a>, Reader in European Philosophy, European Institute, LSE and Director of the Forum for European Philosophy<\/p>\n<p>In the conclusion to his book\u00a0<em>The Two Sources of Morality and Religion<\/em>\u00a0(1932) Bergson states that human beings are now confronted with a special kind of question, namely, whether they wish to go on living or not. We are invited to assume a special kind of responsibility: not simply to decide in favour of &#8216;living&#8217; but to make the effort to fulfil the function of the universe and become like gods. This lecture\u00a0reflected on why Bergson asks these questions and\u00a0considered their significance for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keith Ansell-Pearson\/\u00a0Simon Glendinning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[19],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-ethics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-k4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12162,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/12162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}