Henri Bergson

This chapter shows that Bergson saw in Plotin both the greatest continuator of Platonic philosophy and, among the ancient philosophers, the only true psychologist. So he is slamming him for the same mistake that Plato and all of his modern-day successors made, namely choosing statics over moving, being over becoming, and eternity over duration. As a psychologist, he sees in him the first to identify consciousness as the place of metaphysical knowledge, thus the oldest representative of the spiritualist tradition with which he identifies himself.