Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Brentano

Franz Bretano (1838, 1917) was an important philosophical figure in the development of
modern psychology. His family was Italian, but they lived in Germany, and he was the
nephew of Bettina Armin, a key figure of German Romaticism. At one point a catholic
priest, he left the Church over the issue of papal infallibility. In effect,  he was also well versed
in Aristotle and Medieval philosophy, and thus came to serve as a bridge between
various traditions in philosophy. His students included Husserl (Phenomenology) and
Freud.



source: English-language Wikipedia

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source: German-language Wikipedia

translation: GoogleTranslate/doxa-louise

Aktpsychology

Actpsychology refers to one of Franz Brentano's (1838-1917)  philosophical and psychological doctrines, linked to traditions of medieval scholasticism . [1] The latter include the concept of activity . [2] All psychological approaches of the 19th and 20th centuries, which proceed from the primacy of consciousness and thus from a consciousness psychology and which also regard the psychic as sufficiently characterized by the reference of "Acts" as process-related conditions to their objects, can be considered to belong to Actpsychology . 

Its main concept is intentionality (from Latin intentio = intention, tension, effort, attention, concern, project) according to which psychic phenomena represent acts that are directed towards objects but do not match them (“intentional non-existence of objects”) , According to Brentano, the psychic act as the intentional directionality of consciousness is influenced by the psychic contents, i.e. H. the objects to which human consciousness is directed.

Brentano mentions the three classes of psychic phenomena in which the intentional non-existence of an object is realized on different levels

Ideas (appearances one way or another)
Judgments (true - false)
Emotions (love - hate).

When Brentano titles his main work Psychology from an empirical point of view , he means by empiricism or experience only the so-called inner perception as immediate experience .

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