Hopes for a new metaphysics In Literaturno-naukovyi visnyk, vol. 72, 1918, pt. XII, pp. 158-172.

The purpose of the article is to review the concept of intuition in Henri Bergson's philosophy and analyse the community's reaction to his ideas. At the same time, a significant part of the article is Rudnytskyi's own reflections on the relationship between old and new philosophical theories and personal experience of experiencing them through the philosophical works of other philosophers.

Rudnytskyi draws attention to the reaction to Bergson's philosophy: admiration and protests against his theories indicate the need of the times to put an end to all doubts about old spiritual conflicts. According to the author, the concept of intuition becomes an explanation of all those unnecessary efforts when the philosopher wanted to create a complete system that could generalise what can never be generalised. Rudnytskyi concludes that intuition, as Kant's ‘thing in itself,’ is the irrational firstborn of cognition. According to the author, creative evolution is creative only in the sense that intuition cannot be a fixed idea that can be transmitted to others in a new form.

Kateryna Skrypnyk