INTUITION AND INSIGHT.
THE ANALYSIS OF THEIR SELECTED FEATURES WITH REFERENCE TO BERNARD LONERGAN POSITION
Summary
The paper discusses notions of intuition and insight. The most typical features at- tributed to intuition in the history of philosophy – receptiveness, passivity, imme- diateness, 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 crea- tive, active, mediated, indirect, fallible and open to revision.