The supremacy of reason is its exclusive reflectiveness; and reflectivenessas the quale of reason is the same character as criticalness; that is, it is the faculty of judgment.
And since, for Bergson, intuition is philosophic consciousness, this reflectiveness which he imputes to it is no accident, no inadvertence.
The peculiar supremacy of reason which inheres in reason’s reflectiveness is due to the inclusion of consciousness itself in the content of relational consciousness and of no other mode of consciousness.
Thus, if feeling, will and rational thought are conceptually distinct, reflectiveness is foreign to the first two, and to anything coördinately distinct from rational thought.
It is important to note that this critical reflectiveness is a differentia of reason; it is not a character of intuition nor of will.
He wanted some way of keeping emotion and its progeny of sentiments--which make the savors of life--substantial and strong in the face of a reflectiveness that threatened to nullify all differences.
At first glance that form would seem to be unsuitable for the expression of reflectiveness so deep as this.
Therefore, then, the high calling of both of these has its root in the reflectiveness which primarily springs from the distinctness with which they are conscious of the world and their own selves, and thereby come to reflect upon them.
The element of reflectiveness may enter into a consideration of the object, and the prospective pleasure thus become an element of the object of desire.
Such a desire would argue a reflectiveness which has been shown not to be necessarily characteristic of action.
They retraced their steps with that slow reflectiveness which comes when one walks backwards and forwards over the same ground.
He sat on the low rail, swinging one leg monotonously, while the square little sailor stood at his side with that patient maritime reflectivenesswhich is being slowly killed by the quicker ways of steam.
