ISSN: 1734-9923 eISSN: 2300-7621 OAI
DOI: 10.18276/aie.2016.34-02
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34 (2016)
Intuition and insight. The analysis of their selected features with reference to Bernard Lonergan position
| Authors: |
Monika
Walczak
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski |
| Keywords: | intuition insight Bernard J.F. Lonergan receptiveness/creativity directness/indirectness infallibility/fallibility |
| Whole issue publication date: | 2016 |
| Page range: | 16 (29-44) |
Abstract
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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