Moral and religious values between closure and openness according to Bergson

Abstract

Bergson’s contribution to morality and religion has been a reference in the history of contemporary philosophical thought by which we have given a new meaning to human life, especially it appeared during a period of intelectual crisis in the west within the second half of the nineteenth century accompanied by an emergence of the scientific and biological wave that is shard on many doctrines and trends that wanted to formulate several automatic and mechanical explanations, on which it will be interpreted and presented a complete global of the universe. What carried bergson to adopt the thesis that the self is creative, it is constantly being created, which has increased the spirit of the man and its resurgence as it revealed itself and aspired to an ethical and existential goal. In addition to intuition as direct knowledge and mystical effort concording the moving reality which its purpose is to build an open universal morality based on love, fraternity, tolerance, freedom and ascension to the highest purpose which is ; a universal moving and open religion. All of bergson’s analyzes are a reflection on the future of humanity, with the essay of the affirmation of the effectiveness of religious and ethical values in the constitution of man life with the inclusion of the latter in the open system of values.