[Avodah] Intuition -- Sources

[Samuel Groner]

See R. Alan Brill's article, Worlds Destroyed, Worlds Rebuilt:
The Religious Thought of Rabbi Yehudah Amital, available online at
http://www.edah.org/backend/JournalArticle/BRILL_5_2.pdf; from there,
you should be able to pretty easily find the primary sources in Rav
Amital's writings.

Some samplings from R. Brill's article:

"R. Amital writes that recognition of our innate image of God leads to
moral sensitivity and conscience. Fundamental for R. Amital, following
his reading of the thought of the Ge'onim, Maimonides, and Musar
writers, is the idea that man can naturally tell right from wrong,
independently of the halakhah. R. Amital cites the Ga'on Rabbenu
Nissim, (eleventh century) who, like most ge'onim, affirmed the kalam
doctrine of a
natural intuition (lutf) given to all people as a gift of God that
allows humans to know the correct course of moral action even without
revelation (p.21)."

"We need to have a sense of gratitude and dignity in our souls;
Nahmanides' open-ended directives of "do the good and the right" and
"not to be a scoundrel with the Torah's permission" typify a broad
approach to the many moral intuitions that are part of Torah. For R.
Amital, natural morality is not an ideal that one aspires to fulfill,
not a virtue ethic, or a system that provides answers in life, or even
a prescription to change. It is, rather, a natural capacity of our
souls. (p. 8 )."