The idea that your intuition is your best guide in determining what is right and what is wrong is a basic tenet of?

Answer 1

Humanistic Ethical Philosophy and possibly some feminist movements may well subscribe to the notion that "intuition is the best guide in determining what is right and what is wrong." If the statement is made that "there is no such thing as right and wrong" an immediate response by a reasonably intelligent person needs to be "How do you know you are right about that?" On a grand scale, it is obvious that some things, such as gratitude for acts of kindness, are right and should be fundamental to human morality. It is equally obvious that some things are wrong, requiring punishment and remedial action to correct them. Bullying is fundamentally wrong, and yet aggressive cultures could claim that intuition guides them to assert their superiority whilst passive cultures could say that intuition teaches them that peaceful lifestyles are in fact superior to those in which aggressiveness is glorified. The use of intuition as a best guide, therefore, is firstly of philosophical importance as an emancipation of wisdom and knowledge, secondly of ethical concern because intuition is subject to nurture, and potential ethical dilemmas are supposed where differing cultural contexts collide, and thirdly of humanistic classification because it dispenses with the belief that guidance from God is supreme. A tenet is a doctrine, principle, belief or opinion held as true by a school, sect, party or person. The word has its origins in the Latin tenere, meaning "to hold". Intuition is the immediate perception or understanding of truths, facts, or events without reasoning. The word has its origins in the Latin tueri, meaning to look. ---- The following quote is from Alexander Pope's "Essay on Criticism". * "Yet if we look more closely, we shall find Most have the seeds of judgment in their mind." The following website of Virginia Delaney http://plusroot.com/dbook/ is the source of the edited information below. Plus Root Theory uses the term intuition to refer to intellectual aspects of human thinking in subliminal levels of awareness. Intuition is a name for intellectual thinking that is real but not clearly conscious. Intuition is not instinct, conditioned reflex, or any other physiological activity. Intuition is intellectual. Instinct and other subliminal biological operations are physical. The difference is important in developing theories about human nature. Although intuition operates subconsciously, intuition is an important aspect of our intellectual life. Instinct and conditioned reflex are also consequential aspects of our mental process that also work subliminally underneath surface thinking. Plus Root Theory, emphasizes a distinction between intuition as plus defined, and physical reflex as instinctual and conditioned. The plusdefinition differs from definitions of intuition by many philosophers, including Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and Marx. Plus Root Theory rejects the notion that rationality is always conscious. Instead, plus root theory maintains that we humans do a substantial amount of intellectual thinking, including reasoning, at subliminal levels of consciousness. Intuition is a good name for important aspects of subliminal intellectual thinking. It is an elegant use of the term intuition. This usage fits well with the way we actually utilize the word intuition. It is a waste of the term intuition to use it to mean instinct. We have the word instinct that means instinct. Intuitional abilities, as plus defined, are intellectual gifts we enjoy in virtue of our human nature. Each human possesses intuitional talents which he or she develops in the process of maturing. Intuition, as defined, is an aspect of our nature. It is not a mysterious independent power outside our self that thinks for us and then inserts ideas in our mind, like sticking pins in a pin cushion. It is a tenet of plus root theory that: we receive as part of our human nature our own rational capacities and we develop our own intuition. Using our intuitional intellectual talents, we begin the process of abstracting concepts from the physiological circuits inscribed within our brain tissue. Using intuition is the first step we take into the intellectual world. Plus Root Theory, which builds on balanced realism, emphasizes that: human intellectual activity requires a healthy physiological brain and a well functioning nervous system as an operating mechanism to provide raw material before a person can begin normal intellectual abstraction. We physically perceive raw material as sensations, images, impulses, emotions, instincts, etc. Physiological actions and reactions occur according to physical laws of chemistry, physics and Biology. Intellectual abstraction, however, is something we do intellectually. It is a plus tenet that: we do much abstraction, judgment, and reasoning in subliminal areas of thinking, particularly concerning elemental matters. This means that each of us partakes in intellectual thinking which we are not critically conscious of doing. In our deepest subliminal thinking we bring elemental assumptions into play without conscious awareness. We use elemental assumptions in monitoring our more conscious understanding, judgment, reasoning, and evaluation. We all do it, but it is difficult to discuss because it is subliminal. When we think intuitionally we are not critically conscious of our thoughts and yet the process is not a total secret. We can, to some degree, access intuitional thinking through introspection and insight. Using our own insight and personal experience, we know we exercise intuition. Intuition is a real human talent. We reason in subliminal thinking along with reasoning we do with conscious awareness. We develop much knowledge of elemental verities in our intuition. We also make mistakes in subliminal levels of awareness that can mask as if they were verities. All normally functioning mature people intuit and develop knowledge of root verities in subliminal levels of awareness. These verities are intuited as true and employed as monitors in conscious rational thinking. When these intuited verities operate as a functional set, they are referred to herein as the basic criterion of commonsense or commonsense criterion. At the same time, most of us (probably all of us) make some root errors in our subliminal thinking. We are not consciously aware of root errors in this level of thinking, but nonetheless they are there and they do damage. Root verities are elemental guide lines of sound rational thinking. Once they become established in our subconscious, we access and use them intuitively. Root verities "fit" and "flow" with cybernetic circuits as water flows through a well designed irrigation system-metaphorically speaking. Root verities have a natural quality. Once we think them through, they strike us as virtually self evident. They fit so well with physiological thinking that it is natural to think of them as natural. In contrast to verities, root errors are not naturally intuitive. They are acquired by a different route than we use to develop understanding of root verities. However, we can easily acquire root errors in our subliminal thought systems if we live in an environment where elemental mistakes are in style - which most of us do. Although root errors go against the grain of elemental insight, they often give intellectual sanction to instinctual urges. When this happens, intuition and instinct are at variance. We are not born this way. Each of us creates our own contradictions between instinct and intuition. ----

Answer 2

ethical intuitionism, a moral theory that suggests that individuals can grasp moral truths directly through intuition without relying on reason or empirical evidence. This approach contends that certain moral principles are self-evident and can be perceived intuitively by individuals.