Franz Brentano 1 was once an immense thinker, yet for a very long time his value used to be under-estimated. at the least within the English talking international locations, he got here to be remembered top because the initiator of a philoso phical place which he in truth deserted for sturdy and adequate 2 purposes. His final and most crucial contributions handed virtually not noted. Even this type of well-informed and well-prepared e-book as Passmore's IOO Years of Philosophy (Duckworth, I957), is open to an identical remark; Passmore targeted his cognizance at the early Brentano, simply because he seemed his impression at the British philo sophical scene as being limited to Brentano's early paintings. Brentano's scholars, e. g. , Husserl, Meinong, Marty and Twardowski, have been frequently influential and, frequently adequate, they departed from the stern universal experience and advisedly wary angle in their nice instructor. hence even at the continent, the general public photo of Brentano tended to be incomplete (and occasionally distorted), outdoors the narrower circle of students, fans, and other people with targeted curiosity. This, or pretty much this, was once nonetheless the case in I955, while my contacts with the fans of Twardowski made me flip in the direction of the learn of Brentano. considering the fact that then there was a pleasant revival of curiosity in his paintings. His early ebook on Aristotle used to be reprinted in German and of his major positions, Psychologie and Wahrheit und Evidenz, are showing in English translations. Translations into different languages, e. g.
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