Abstract
The study analyses the basic principles of one of the founders of the journal Ruch filosofický, Ferdinand Pelikán. As a translator of Bergson's Creative Evolution, Pelikán was fascinated by the notion of "intuition," which he first analysed in Fichte, and then independently explored its essential manifestations.
For Pelikan, intuition represents a moment of transformation, almost a realisation of one's own individuality. He therefore devoted his 1928 habilitation thesis to outlining an affective theory of personality, from which he hoped to gain a more comprehensive insight into the processes involved in intuition.
In individualism (grounded in intuition) Pelikan sought the source of the creation of the "ideal" as a necessary condition of democratic life.