Will, Motion, Diversification

While Bergson inverts the traditional Parmenidean-Platonist privileging of Rest over Motion, it accepts its priority of Unity over Multiplicity. Hence, he sometimes struggles to explain the creativity of Elan Vital, i. e. to explain how a unitary impetus can be the source of novelty, sometimes seeming to concede that apparent change is no more than the trace of the effect of that force on Matter. Formaterialism rejects that shared thesis, by recognizing Becoming-Diverse and Becoming-the-Same, i. e. its Material Principle and its Formal Principle, respectively, of equal value. Hence, as opposed to Bergsonism, Formaterialism can unambivalently characterize Will as both an initiation of Motion and a Diversification of given circumstances, without accepting the Parmenidean-Platonist judgment of it as a degenerative process.