The unavoidable conclusion is, then, that the intuitionist does not, and cannot, ignore the ultimate derivations of right and wrong from pleasure and pain.
Of course the question concerns concrete cases of subjectivity, the intuitionist contending that a given subjective state cannot be objectified--i.
But the intuitionist would readily admit: if not in a thinkable way, then in no way, evidently.
With the intuitionist variety, and particularly the Bergsonian variety of anti-intellectualism, this essay is largely to be concerned.
The intuitionist philosopher is such never for logical reasons, always for temperamental reasons.
When consciousness is employed with an emphasis on the qualities of its object, in distinction from aspects of value and relation (which also belong to any object), consciousness is intuitive, in the intuitionist sense of the term.
And I had myself become, as I had to admit to myself, an Intuitionist to a certain extent.
The premises with which the Intuitionist starts commonly include other formulæ held as independent and self-evident.
At the same time, if the other principles are not throughout taken as valid, the so-called proof does not seem to be addressed to the Intuitionist or Egoist at all.
All this an intuitionist who knows his case will now admit, but he will add that, though the amount of the moral sense may and does differ in different persons, yet that as far as it goes it is alike in all.
But a logician, faced with three twos, gets six--an intuitionist gets eight.
A logician adds two and two and gets four; an intuitionist multiplies them and gets the same answer.
And for having so constantly perceived this psychological fact, we must applaud the intuitionist school.
The familiar pair of names, Intuitionist and Evolutionist, so commonly used now to connote all possible differences in ethical opinion, really refer to the psychological question alone.
Furthermore, between the philosophical and the dogmaticintuitionist serious differences of opinion may be expected to arise.
But, as we have seen above (Sec 108), there appears to be nothing to prevent a utilitarian from being an intuitionist of some sort, as well.
The Dogmatic Intuitionist has difficulties of his own with which to cope.
The philosophical intuitionist who accepts more than one ultimate moral rule must face the possibility that he will meet with a conflict of the higher intuitions to which he has had recourse.
Butler thought that justice should be done though the heavens fall; the philosophical intuitionist must maintain that the danger of bringing down the heavens is never to be lost sight of.
With the general spirit of these utterances the typical intuitionist is in sympathy, although he need not assent to the doctrine of innate ideas, nor need he hold that all moral truths are equally self-evident.
The dogmatic intuitionist has quite a collection of rules by which he must judge of his actions.
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