MEETING OF REASON AND INTUITION IN BELIEF
Keywords:
Intuition, Reason, Non-dual theory, Absolutism, Mystical Faculty, Valuational Intuition, Moral Intuition, Aesthetic Intuition, Religious Experience, Mystical ExperienceAbstract
One of the remarkable characteristic features of the contemporary philosophy which it has someway revived from the religious thinkers of the past, and which is now very much appealing to the believers in some form of religious dogmas which cannot be easily established on the basis of the canons of the discursive reason in the positivist tradition, is the concept of intuition. The distrust in the power of the discursive intellect to grasp the deeper dimensions of life is a basic tenet in the thought of Henri Bergson (1859-1941). In his Creative Evolution (1907) he makes the antithesis between instinct and intellect essential to his philosophy. His contention is that instinct is nearer to nature than intelligence. It is not any instinct, but the instinct "that has become disinterested self-conscious, capable 9f reflecting upon its object and of enlarging it indefinitely," in other words, the instinct which has itself transformed into intuition, is alone competent to grasp the inwardness of evolution or life. In the religious circle this insight is identified as the search for 'the God of heart' in the place of the God of the intellect.
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