Word: intuitionism
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Scorn. That despair suddenly dissolved when they heard lectures at the College de France by Philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theories of creative evolution exalted the spirit of man and his ability to find basic reality through intuition. Then, in 1905, Jacques and Raïssa, now newlyweds, happened into a...
Despite such criticisms, the differences between Eastern and Western spirituality may sometimes be more apparent than real, the assumed opposition more a matter of semantics than truth. At the root of both is man's continuing quest for the experience of the transcendent, which must work itself out among...
One of the most critical disturbances is the threat to an old and honored dichotomy. In the theocentric world of the Middle Ages, man lived in a holistic universe, with heaven above and earth below embraced in one divine economy. But the aggressive humanism of the Renaissance and the mechanistic...
The viewer is likely to feel cheated, however, when he sees Poons making this type of choice by intuition, standing in front of the painting, or when he hears how Robert Motherwell stumbled on the whole idea for his "Open Series," by observing the proportion of two canvases leaning together...
Despite Malamud's careful portrayal of the young black writer, Willie Spearmint, and his intuition for the kind of stories Willie would invent and the plots he would pick, most blacks would probably still say that only a black writer could describe this experience. Malamud disagrees. "Anyone with imagination and...