{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-03/p006","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I would like to bring before you what in our problematic times a great personality like Franz Brentano found particularly problematic. He was not the kind of philosopher one usually meets nowadays; unlike modern philosophers he was first and foremost a thinker, a thinker who did not allow his thinking to wander at random. He sought to establish it on the firm foundation of the evolution of thought itself. This led to his first publication, a book dealing with Aristotle's psychology, the so-called “nus poetikos.”[^2] This book by Brentano, which is long out of print, is a magnificent achievement in detailed inquiry. It reveals him as a man capable of real thinking; that is, he has the ability to formulate and elaborate concepts that have content. We find Franz Brentano, more especially in the second half of his book about Aristotle's psychology, engaged in a process of thinking of a subtlety not encountered nowadays, and indeed seldom at the time the book was written. What is especially significant is the fact that Franz Brentano's ideas still had the strength to capture and leave their mark in human souls. When people nowadays discuss things connected with the inner life, they generally express themselves in empty words, devoid of any real content. The words are used because historically they have become part of the language, and this gives the illusion that they contain thought, but thinking is not in fact involved.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture V","site_heading":"Franz Brentano's Struggle: Truth, Goodness, and Spiritual Science","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Daher war eine der ersten Publikationen des Franz Brentano das Buch über die Psychologie, die Seelenlehre des Aristoteles, namentlich über den Begriff des sogenannten «noûs poëtikós» bei Aristoteles. Dieses Buch, das jetzt lange schon vergriffen ist, ist, ich möchte sagen, eine Prachtleistung des Denkens der weiteren Gegenwart. Es zeigt vor allen Dingen, daß Brentano ein Mensch war, der eben wirklich noch denken konnte, wenn man unter Denken versteht die Ausgestaltung wirklicher Begriffe, das Bilden von wirklichen Begriffen. Insbesondere der zweite Teil dieses Buches über die Seelenkunde des Aristoteles zeigt uns Franz Brentano in einem Denkprozeß drinnen von einer Feinheit, von einer Ausgestaltetheit, die man jetzt überhaupt nicht mehr, und in der Zeit, in der das Buch geschrieben worden ist, sehr selten, findet. Denn das Bedeutsame ist, daß Franz Brentanos Begriffe noch stark genug waren, das Seelische, ich möchte sagen, wirklich einzufangen, das Seelische wirklich zu bezeichnen. Heute haben die Menschen, wenn sie von dem Seelischen reden, zum großen Teil nur noch Worthülsen, nicht wirkliche Ideen, nicht wirkliche Begriffe. Worthülsen, die man eben halten kann aus dem Grunde, weil sie sich in dem geschichtlichen Sprechprozeß ergeben haben, bei denen man auch glaubt, daß man bei den Worten auch etwas denkt; aber man denkt in Wirklichkeit nichts bei den Worten.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":297,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/176/1917-07-03/p005"}],"english":["GA 176/1917-07-03/p006"],"method":"length","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":297,"en_words":239,"ratio":0.8,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"proposed","verified":false},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":0.97,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8951,"original_word_count":9212,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Rita Stebbing","identified_edition":"AP1987","book_title":"Aspects of Human Evolution","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA176/English/AP1987/19170703p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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