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

• Authors: Monika Walczak

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

intuition; insight; Bernard J.F. Lonergan; receptiveness/creativity; directness/indirectness; infallibility/fallibility

PL

bezpośredniość/ zapośredniczenie; receptywność/kreatywność; Bernard J.F. Lonergan; wgląd; intuicja; nieomylność/omylność

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 34
• Pages: 29-44

Contributors

author

Monika Walczak

• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski

Identifiers

DOI

10.18276/aie.2016.34-02

Biblioteka Nauki

1622128