F. C. Brentano

The Theory of Categories (eBook, PDF)

Übersetzer: Chisholm, Roderick M.; Guterman, Norbert

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book contains the definitive statement of Franz Brentano's views on meta physics. It is made up of essays which were dictated by Brentano during the last ten years of his life, between 1907 and 1917. These dictations were assembled and edited by Alfred Kastil and first published by the Felix Meiner Verlag in 1933 under the title Kategorienlehre. Kastil added copious notes to Brentano's text. These notes have been included, with some slight omissions, in the present edition; the bibliographical references have been brought up to date. Brentano's approach to philosophy is unfamiliar to many contemporay readers. I shall discuss below certain fundamental points which such readers are likely to find the most difficult. I believe that once these points are properly understood, then what Brentano has to say will be seen to be of first importance to philosophy. THE PRIMACY OF THE INTENTIONAL To understand Brentano's theory of being, one must realize that he appeals to what he calls inner perception for his paradigmatic uses of the word "is". For inner perception, according to Brentano, is the source of our knowledge of the nature of being, just as it is the source of our knowledge of the nature of truth and of the nature of good and evil. And what can be said about the being of things that are not apprehended in inner perception can be understood only by analogy with what we are able to say about ourselves as thinking subjects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789400981898
• Artikelnr.: 43984617

Autorenporträt

Franz Brentano (1838-1917) verband die Philosophie eng mit der Psychologie, die für ihn die Grundwissenschaft schlechthin war. Er war Begründer der Aktpsychologie, eine idealistische Strömung philosophisch-psychologischen Denkens, die vor allem an Traditionen der mittelalterlichen Scholastik anknüpft. Brentano lehrte nach seiner Habilitation 1866 erst in Würzburg, später in Wien Philosophie. Zu seinen Schülern zählten Edmund Husserl, Alexius Meinong, Sigmund Freud und Rudolf Steiner. Seine Lehre beeinflusste maßgeblich die Grazer Schule und die Phänomenologie.

Inhaltsangabe

to the Theory of Categories.- One The Strict and the Extended Senses of Being.- I. The Ambiguity of "IS" and the Unity of the Concept of Being.- II. Real and Fictive Parts of Being.- III. Being and Intensity.- Two Preliminary Studies for the Theory of Categories.- I. Aristotle's Theory of Categories: Interpretation and Critique.- II. Substance.- III. Relations.- Three The Final Three Drafts of the Theory of Categories.- I. The First Draft of the Theory of Categories.- II. The Second Draft of the Theory of Categories.- III. The Third Draft of the Theory of Categories.- IV. Appendix: The Nature of the Physical World in the Light of the Theory of Categories.- Editorial notes by Alfred Kastil.- Index to Brentano's text.