In the total unfolding of the world toward the spirit, life rises as spirit. As matter, it sinks below. When this theory resolves the problem of knowledge through an intuition which, beyond all logic and rational intelligibility, immediately grasps the intrinsic truth of things, it means to say that only life is capable of understanding life. From this perspective all objectivity, the object of all knowledge, must be transformed into life.

XREF: This echoes Bergson's intuition vs. intellect distinction and the broader vitalist tradition that influened later process philosophers and phenomenologists. QUESTION: How does this 'life understands life' intuitionism square with empirical science, which seems to work precisely through detached, rational objectivity?

DEFINE: Defines the vitalist theory of knowledge: intuition transcends logic because only life comprehends life.

Georg Simmel, on individuality and social…, loc. 858