CONTRIBUTI / 1 / Alessandra Campo /
Every time Bergson wants to describe the way by which traditional metaphysics has thought the relation between God and the world, eternity and time, he always chooses the same image. That of the alchemic and economic image of the “pièce d’or” and the “menue monnaie”. In his lessons as well as in his works Bergson employs this image ten times: five in his lessons dedicated to the Histoire de l’idée du temps (1902-19003), one in Introduction to metaphysics (1903), three in Creative evolution (1907) and once more in his course at Collège de France on Spinoza’s Tractatus de intellectus emendatione (1910-1911). In this article I wish to demonstrate that this image is the “intermediate image” of Bergon’s philosophy. And by this way, I will try to point out that the intermediate image of Bergson’s philosophy is the same of Spinoza’s one.
