ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the concept of intuition in the sense of a cognitive capacity as it is used in classical philosophy. It provides an analytic approach to the concept of intuition. The chapter then explores the relations between intuition and imagination, which is the faculty to represent individuals, which are not definitely determinable by concepts and propositions. Drawing on reflections from F. W. J. Schelling's transcendental idealism, one might provide criteria for external objectivity of intuition by way of imaginative representation of organic wholes in some works of art. Finally, the chapter stresses the importance of a theory of intuition for an adequate understanding of creativity which is the power to construct the unity of things and theories seemingly opposite to one another. It highlights the consequences to be drawn from this theory with respect to the concept of imagination it will be useful to dwell upon the transcendental argument Kant puts forward in support of his view.
