{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 176/1917-07-10/p042","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Brentano said: Whatever the soul consists of, as far as the substance in which it lives is concerned, it must be capable of individualization, for one can divide certain lower creatures, and each part will continue life with the same characteristics the creature had before being divided. You will know that this is possible with certain lower worms; they are unaffected if divided, and live on as two separate worms. From this Brentano concluded that an independent soul must be present in each separate piece. In other words, if a worm is divided in two and both parts continue to live, there must be a soul in each. He further concluded from this that the soul and the body must be one unity. He made a comparison which convinced him that his view was right. He compared the event of the worm with a triangle saying that the triangle divides into two triangles if a line is drawn through it. So he compared two concepts: that of dividing a worm in two and that of dividing a triangle in two, and let one explain the other. He considered the two concepts to be of equal simplicity and able to explain one another. But is it a valid comparison? For Brentano it was an important issue. But does it stand up to scrutiny? It does not. Let us say you have here a triangle; if you draw a line through it in a certain way, it does indeed divide into two triangles. Each half is a triangle just as the worm when divided becomes two worms. However, if you divide the, triangle differently, one of the parts becomes not a triangle but a quadrangle. 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Nun sagt er: Ja, da können wir uns keine andere Vorstellung bilden, als daß nunmehr in jedem der Teile ein selbständiges Seelisches lebt. Habe ich also einen niederen Wurm in zwei Stücke zerschnitten und jeder lebt wiederum, so ist in jedem Teilstück eine Seele. Er schließt daraus, daß das Seelische als ganz Einheitliches in dieser Weise mit dem Körperlichen verbunden ist. Und er gebraucht nun einen Vergleich, denken Sie, er sagt: So ist es doch auch bei dem Dreieck. Wenn wir einen Strich machen, so zerfällt es in zwei Dreiecke, da haben wir es geteilt, jedes ist ein Dreieck. Ich will jetzt nur dieses sagen: Er vergleicht also den Gedanken, den er beim Zweiteilen eines Wurmes hat mit dem Gedanken, den er beim Zweiteilen eines Dreiecks hat und macht sich das eine durch das andere klar. Zweiteilen eines Dreiecks ist ein einfacherer Gedanke als das Zweiteilen eines Wurmes; also man kann sich das eine durch das andere verdeutlichen. Aber gilt das? Brentano kommt es außerordentlich wichtig vor. Aber gilt das? Es gilt nicht! Denn, nehmen Sie an, Sie haben hier ein Dreieck. Gewiß, wenn Sie hier eine Linie ziehen, teilen Sie es in zwei Dreiecke. Jeder Teil ist wiederum ein Dreieck, wie beim Wurm, wenn er in zwei Teile zerschnitten wird. Aber teilen Sie das dann so ab, dann entstehen nicht zwei Dreiecke, sondern eines ist ein Viereck. 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