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The word intuition comes from the Latin verb intueri translated as "consider" or from the late middle English word intuit, "to contemplate". [ 2 ] [ 7 ] Use of intuition is sometimes referred to as responding to a " gut feeling " or "trusting your gut".
Mou Zongsan's study of Immanuel Kant has been cited as a highly crucial part in the development Mou’s personal philosophy, namely New Confucianism.Widely regarded as the most influential Kant scholar in China, Mou's rigorous critique of Kant’s philosophy—having translated all three of Kant’s critiques—served as an attempt to reconcile Chinese and Western philosophy whilst increasing ...
Anschauen or Anschauung, as a philosophical concept (intuition), has been identified in Plato's Allegory of the Cave where it was associated with the terms light, sun, and eye. [2] It was also mentioned in the works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and was referred to as "Phantasie", “Einbildungskraft”, “exakte sinnliche Phantasie” and ...
Transcendental idealism is a philosophical system [1] founded by German philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 18th century. Kant's epistemological program [2] is found throughout his Critique of Pure Reason (1781).
The Christian New Testament makes mention of the nous or noos, generally translated in modern English as "mind", but also showing a link to God's will or law: Romans 7:23 , refers to the law ( nomos ) of God which is the law in the writer's nous , as opposed to the law of sin which is in the body.
These remarks, which appeared in James's book A Pluralistic Universe in 1909, impelled many English and American readers to investigate Bergson's philosophy, but no English translations of Bergson's major work had yet appeared. James encouraged and assisted Arthur Mitchell in preparing an English translation of Creative Evolution. In August ...
The role of anubhava, anubhuti ("experience," "intuition" [239]) as "experience" in gaining Brahman-jnana is contested. While neo-Vedanta claims a central position for anubhava as "experience," Shankara himself regarded reliance on textual authority as sufficient for gaining Brahman-jnana , [ 240 ] [ note 47 ] "the intuition of Brahman," [ 239 ...
Thinking about Consciousness by David Papineau, is a book (published in 2002) about consciousness that describes what Papineau calls the 'Intuition of Distinctness'. He does not so much attempt to prove that materialism is right (although he presents his 'Causal argument' for it in the first chapter) as analyse why dualism seems intuitively plausible.