Preliminary Philosophy Lessons - Lesson 3 (Notes)

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Preliminary lessons in philosophy (Manuel García Morente )

Lesson 3 - Intuition as a method of philosophy

Discursive method and intuitive method


They oppose each other as a means to wit knowled
reach theDiscursive h
Intuitiv ge
e
It has to do with the word apprehend the object
Discourse" and "Speech" • Vision, contemplation
Series of successive efforts • It is direct, it goes straight
to capture the essence or to the object
reality of the object • Immediate knowledge
indirect method Method?*
• Single act of the spirit to

Sensitive intuition
It is immediate, the communication is and the
direct between
It cannot me by the philosopher,
be used object.
since
objec it requires
is more than
provides rigor, nor knowledge and
ts individualnot is just
spiritual intuition
character.

An effort of the spirit. to be formal or "real", when the


Well of the object, since it is put in intimate contact with
essence
essential and of theobjects,
intimateand
reality
is divided into intellect
existential the three classes: ual,
emotive and
volitional.
Preliminary lessons in philosophy (Manuel García Morente )
Lesson 3 - Intuition as a method of philosophy

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Preliminary lessons in philosophy (Manuel García Morente )
Lesson 3 - Intuition as a method of philosophy

Intellectual: Descartes, and emanes (Schelling and


the idealists Schopenhauer)
Emotive: Espinoza, Hume
Volitional: Fitchte as and each one seeks to
Contemporaneity: they are very establish their
use of
varied
the
own system, but we can even find
intuition

Bergson's
intuition
Bergson, Dilthey and Husserl

It opposes the only method


intellectual of philosophy.
activity and is intuitive activity,
for intuition
The ity is flowing, it is below the re who
authentic
science. a studies
area
The literary The most appropriate instrument for the
ica, since
metaphor is e the can't expression
to make definitions, since they
philosopher are static.

Dilthey's
intuition
It is characterized, as of a "volitional" character. in
perceive Consists
briefly,ourselves as entities of desire, will and once
our will encounters resistance, it has come to fight against
them, they become existences.
Preliminary lessons in philosophy (Manuel García Morente )
Lesson 3 - Intuition as a method of philosophy
Preliminary lessons in philosophy (Manuel García Morente )
Lesson 3 - Intuition as a method of philosophy

The
Husserl's Since all our
phenomenological
intuition
representations are objects, according to
Husserl, phenomenological intuition consists
singular and of in focusing on whatever representation it is,
one or in parentheses the singular existence of the thing,
putting
and then looking for the general essence. It is an intuition of
the intellectual type.

Conclusion
The error consists of wanting to uniformly apply a single
type of intuition to all planes and layers of the being.

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