Intuition and insight. The analysis of their selected features with reference to Bernard Lonergan position

Autor: Monika Walczak
Jazyk: German<br />English<br />Polish
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Analiza i Egzystencja, Vol 34 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1734-9923
DOI: 10.18276/aie.2016.34-02
Popis: The paper discusses notions of intuition and insight. The most typical features attributed to intuition in the history of philosophy – receptiveness, passivity, immediateness, directness, self-evidence, infallibility, and indubitability – are analyzed. A variability of the notion of intuition is shown, taking as its example the category of insight, central for the epistemology of Bernard J.F. Lonergan (1904–1984), the twentieth-century philosopher locating between phenomenology, Thomism and hermeneutics. Insight is still in some respects a kind of intuition although it is creative, active, mediated, indirect, fallible and open to revision.
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