Intuition

Summary

Dominique Pagani understands intuition as apprehension through the senses, not as a presentiment1. Empirical intuitions are sensations. With space and time, Kant introduces pure intuitions, a priori forms of sensibility that condition every appearance and make it possible to know before seeing2. From this he draws the Kantian distinction between the geometer, who constructs the concept by representing the triangle in intuition, and the philosopher, who proceeds through concepts3. He attributes to Hegel the critique of the Romantic position: it wants the absolute to be felt and intuited rather than conceived, whereas for Hegel truth exists only in the concept4. Yet he does not hold intuition and concept to be contradictory. Intuition has value only when overcome in the concept, and the concept is of interest only if it starts from intuition's rich material. Nothing would begin without an initial intuition5. He adds that intuition can be a mediation that has become habit, like a reflex acquired through learning, and thus a stage to be overcome on the way to mastery6.

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