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The speculative value of Gilbert Keith Chesterton’s literary heritage does not cease to provoke controversy, or even confusion among specialists in the field, with the judgments varying from straightforward affirmation to spiteful mockeries. The purpose of this text is to contribute to the question, if only a little, and to provide a certain path to understanding Chesterton’s writing themselves as well as (in a sense at least) the controversy they cause by demonstrating that their metaphysical potential rests upon metaphysical intuition of being, and metaphysical intuition of being only. The inquiry shall open with very brief considerations about metaphysical intuition of being as such, pointing to certain essential traits due to which its presence might be identified, which are going to be followed by a short interpretative procedure aimed at localizing these traits in Chesterton’s writings, and end with a handful of conclusions about the possible benefits resulting from this sort of inquiry. The basis for considering metaphysical intuition of being is going to be found in the books penned by an unmatchable expert in the field, a French Thomist Jacques Maritain (most notably A Preface to Metaphysics and Existence and the Existent), whereas in the case of Chesterton’s heritage — chiefly in Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man, and — of course — Saint Thomas Aquinas. First things first, then; let us consider metaphysical intuition of being as such.

“There Is an ‘Is’”: Intuition of Being in the Thought and Writings of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (a Maritainian Perspective)