Pojęcie i funkcja intuicji intelektualnej w ujęciu Edmunda Morawca

The subject of this article is the method of intellectual intuition as seen by Edmund Morawiec. The aim of the analyses is to show both Morawiec's historical and systematic research on intuition and its function in Thomistic metaphysics of the existential version. The method of intuition is presented from the point of view of pragmatic methodology, which analyses knowledge-generating activities leading to knowledge in the logical sense, understood as a set of logical judgements. Morawiec's view of intuition is that it is a type of intellectual perception used in various areas of cognition, everyday cognition, its application in sciences, and philosophy. The text presents the applications of intuition in the above mentioned fields with particular emphasis on metaphysics and discusses the problems of cognitive operations that prepare intuitive cognition. The article discusses problems related to the determination of the formal object of intuition using methods that simplify its isolation and the issues of the transition from preparatory operations to the very act of intuition capturing the actual object of metaphysics.