Intuitionen, intuitiver Verstand und Intuition. Symposium zu: Eckart Förster: Die 25 Jahre der Philosophie

Against Kant, Eckart Förster claims that Goethe's methodology of intuitive understanding is a real pos- sibility for us. Firstly, this essay shows that this methodology has to be strictly distinguished from the questionable use of intuitions in contemporary analytic philosophy; secondly, strong parallels betweenGoethe's intuitive understanding and Bergson's intuition are put forward. Both use intuitions as a tool to find essence concepts for natural kinds. Moreover, the parallels help naturalists (like me) to detach Förster's important insight from the idealistic context.