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Updated: May 10, 2025
We call it Intuitionism, but such philosophy in plain and bitter English is the intellectual defense and solemn glorification of impulse. "Time," says Bergson, "is a continuous stream, a present that endures." Time apparently is all. "Life can have no purpose in the human sense of the word." Essentially, then, James, Bergson and Croce appeal from intellect to feeling. They return to primitivism.
That the conviction is not supported by arguments does not prove that it is not a just one. ARGUMENTS AGAINST INTUITIONISM. What may be urged against Intuitionism? It may be pointed out that such considerations as the above constitute an argument to prove the value of moral intuitions, and not one to prove the value of intuitionism as an ethical theory.
Nor does he leave all difficulties behind him, who abandons Dogmatic Intuitionism and takes refuge in Philosophical. Kant's maxim needs a vast amount of interpretation. As it stands, it is little more than an empty formula. What I can wish to be the law of the universe must depend very much upon what I am. The lion and the lamb do not thirst for the same law.
While admitting that there is something in the objection, I retain the convenient terms, merely warning the reader to be on his guard. Perceptional Intuitionism falls back upon the analogy of perception in general. I seem to perceive by direct inspection that my blotter is green, and that my penholder is longer than my pencil.
It is very interesting to note that one of our best critics of intuitionism, Hemy Sidgwick, was himself an intuitionist. His Methods of Ethics deserves very close attention. Again Intuitions are often spoken of as if they had been shot out of a pistol, and had neither father nor mother. To understand them better it is only necessary to read chapter viii of Dr.
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