[b. 1859, Paris, France; d. 1941, Paris, France]
Mystic philosopher. He disavowed platonic doctrine and championed intuition rather than strict rationalization, as well as the optimistic place of man in nature. His greatest works are “Creative Evolution,” “Time and Free Will,” and “Two Sources of Morality and Religion.” He won the Nobel Prize in 1927.
– after Eli Birnbaum