The School Of Brentano And Husserlian Phenomenology - Introduction
The School Of Brentano And Husserlian Phenomenology - Introduction

Summary/Abstract: Franz Brentano (1838-1917) gave lectures both at the University of Würzburg (1866-1873) and at the University of Vienna (1874-1894). His most important students from the Würzburg period were Carl Stumpf (1848-1936) and Anton Marty (1847-1914) and from the Viennese period Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), Alexius Meinong (1853- 1920), Kasimir Twardowski (1866-1938) and Christian von Ehrenfels (1859-1932). Setting aside the influence Brentano’s dissertation (especially the chapter on the categorial meanings of being) had on “the young Heidegger”, the Brentanian themes that were most decisive for the formation of Husserl’s phenomenology and for the phenomenological movement in general are the following: a) the idea of philosophy as a rigorous science and of psychology as a fundamental philosophical discipline; b) the differentiation between descriptive and genetic psychological aspects and the grounding of psychological research on the data of inner perception as source of evidence; c) the definition of the psychical according to the traditional concept of the intentional inexistence of the object or, according to the modern one, the intentional reference of the act together with the use of the two criteria as a ground for a unitary classification of psychic phenomena (presentations, judgments, acts of love or hate); d) the understanding [...]

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