Many eminent thinkers – from Kant to Jung to Einstein – have stressed the importance of intuition and have depended on it in their personal and professional lives. They have tended to define intuition as ‘a priori’ knowledge, as a fundamental and indispensable aspect of human nature.
Then there are those scientists and psychologists who have explained intuition away by lumping it in the same province as animal instinct. This is not so surprising since Western society has always extolled the intellect and genuflected before the altar of Reason. And we have to give reason its due. Our world could not have evolved without it since everyone of us thinks / reasons every day. But, as Aristotle said, reason is subject to error.
We must realize that intuition and reason do not stand aligned against one another. One was never meant to supplant the other...
