To say that the East is conspicuously intuitionaland the West is conspicuously logical is fairly true, but this misses the real difference.
It uses the intuitional method in every department of life, but it does not stop with it.
The whole social order served to develop the intuitional method in human relations.
Necessity" is justly conceded to be one of the criteria of these and other intuitional "first truths.
The sense-perception has decisive authority for phenomena about us, the logical faculty for just conclusions from given data, the memory for recall of past experiences, the intuitional reason for axiomatic truths and first principles.
The primary and fundamental ethical distinction belongs to such rational intuition, and is marked by the peculiar necessity of intuitional action.
The strife between intuitional theories and sentimental theories of conscience is, therefore, composed by the concurrence of both knowing and feeling in the action of this power.
But the theory of evolution, if it succeeds in tracing the origin of our moral intuitions, does seem to involve the abandonment of the old intuitional method which accepted them as rules of conduct from which no appeal could be taken.
This intuitional coinage in fixed standard concepts, this creation of an easily handled intellectual cash, is no doubt of evident practical utility.
An inner reform is therefore imperative today, if we are to succeed in unearthing and sifting, in our perception of nature, under the veinstone of practical symbolism, the true intuitional content.
That is to say, it is stated to be the philosopher's duty from the outset to renounce the usual forms of analytic and synthetic thought, and to achieve a direct intuitional effort which shall put him in immediate contact with reality.
Nature is a perfect network of processes, the many still to be discovered, not by human eyes but by intuitional vision.
I am merely setting down that intuitional fact for what it may be worth, though I do not hide my opinion that such promptings of the inner, untutored man are worth more than cavefuls of bones and tombfuls of undecipherable papers.
But this view, which coincides practically with Utilitarianism, would certainly be disputed by most Intuitional moralists.
So far I have been mainly concerned with differences in intuitional method due to difference of generality in the intuitive beliefs recognised as ultimately valid.
It is necessary, therefore, in order to complete our examination of the Intuitional Method, to consider this comparison of motives, and ascertain how far it can be made systematic, and pursued to conclusions of scientific value.
As regards the general conception of the duty, there is, I think, no divergence that we need consider between the Intuitional and Utilitarian systems.
I have already pointed out[288] that in the history of English Ethics the earlier intuitional school show, in this respect, a turn of thought on the whole more philosophical than that which the reaction against Hume rendered prevalent.
But I do not conceive that any one of the three positions is inconsistent with fundamental assumptions of the Intuitional method.
One answer to this question was briefly suggested in a previous chapter where the different phases of the Intuitional Method were discussed.
But, contrarily, a new bark, moored at the furthermost shore of the sea of intellectuality with sails set for the winds which come from the realm of intuitional perception, must be seized.
It is but natural, however, that in the present more or less chaotic condition in which the faculty of the intuitional is found it should be difficult even to interpret its presentations accurately.
What then remains of the egoic schematism, after its transmutation or elevation as the organ of the intuitional consciousness will be utilized as the organ of the Thinker's involuntary cognitive processes.
There are two especial difficulties which lead to the upholding of the intuitional point of view, difficulties which any theory of moral knowledge has to meet.
Here is the inexpugnable element of truth in the intuitional theory.
He felt that every intuitional theory tended to dignify prejudice, convention, and fixed customs, and so to consecrate vested interests and inequitable institutions.
Sidgwick, in his Methods of Ethics, holds that the axiomatic character of happiness as an end proves that the position is not empirical but intuitional or a priori.
Popular judgment, we may say, tends to be as grossly utilitarian in its practice as it is grossly intuitional in its theoretical standpoint.
An intuitional woman does not always know what she is doing in her heart story, even when she does greatly.
Nor will the theory of what some call the 'intuitional consciousness avail us here.
And perhaps it would be impossible to find one individual whose intuitional faculties were developed to the extent that he could turn out the perfect, completed article.
While the scientific method is acknowledged to be of value, the intuitional method is claimed as by far the more important.
It will be seen from this review of the salient points enlarged upon by Browning in these last groups of poems that he has deliberately set himself to harmonize the intellectual and the intuitional aspects of human consciousness.
Gwendolen, the older, intuitional woman, and Mertoun, the young lover, are the only people in the play to realize that purity may exist although the social enactments upon which it is supposed to depend have not been complied with.
The passage already referred to in "Francis Furini" presents most explicitly the objective or intellectual method and the subjective or intuitional method of the search for truth.
How fully Browning was a representative of the thought of this time, combining as he did an intuitional with a scientific outlook has already been shown.
It is a long and recondite speech in which the scientific and the intuitionalmethods of arriving at truth are compared.
We cannot live on its dry bread alone; we need philosophy--an intuitional philosophy.
The forthcoming second volume of collected essays on The Method of Intuitional Philosophy will contain inter alia: Introduction on "Method.
As over-intensification of feeling and emotion goes on, the normal action of the idea centers is interfered with and the individual has superinduced emotional and intuitional states which are no longer guarded by reason and thought.
The emotional and intuitional faculties overfunctioning distort his common understanding.
The farmer's wife loses her mental balance through repression of the fine emotional, intuitional side of her mind which finds no expression in the dull environment of the farm.
This view enables us to reconcile the intuitional and the empirical theories of morals.
All men have the same intuitional power, though in differing degrees.
First, is it not evident that it is all-important what kind of training the little girl receives in the first years of her school life, while she is yet in the intuitional or perceptive stage?
On the intuitional theory, which regards the conscience as a separable and independent faculty, it would be difficult to vindicate the terrible consequences of such conduct.
The Christian doctrine is committed neither to the intuitional nor the evolutionist theory, but rather may be said to reconcile both by retaining that which is true in each.
Yea, his reason, his sensibilities, his great law of humanity, his intuitional and eternal sense of right, made it impossible for him to honor such a God.
Ordinary men and those who go on more intellectual and less intuitionallines will say that these ideas are really contrary to human nature and to nature generally.
And yet beyond all these there is still another life, that of the intuitional world, unto which even this is but as moonlight unto sunlight.
The fourth is the intuitional world, [Previously called in Theosophical literature the buddhic plane.
The second aspect manifests itself in the intuitional world, and we speak of it as the Intuition in man.
Apparently he thought that the moral sense in its origin was intuitional and in its development utilitarian.
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