{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 76/1921-04-04/p062","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"I must repeatedly draw attention to the fact – which I have already done several times – that an extraordinarily talented 19th-century philosopher, Franz Brentano, published the first volume of his “Psychology” in 1874. It is basically an ingenious book. This volume of Brentano's “Psychology” was published in the spring of 1874. He promised the second volume for the fall of the same year. The three following volumes were then to appear shortly thereafter. Brentano had initially calculated this “psychology from an empirical point of view” to consist of five volumes. The first volume was only a preparation. In it, however, there is a highly remarkable passage in which Brentano indicates how he was in fact aiming at the most significant psychological problems. He says: If all modern thinking should lead only to the examination of how representations arise and fade away, how they associate with each other, how memory is formed, and the like, and if one could only come to uncertainty about about the actual psychological questions of Plato and Aristotle, for example, whether the soul remains when its external physical body decays, then one would not have gained much for the needs of man through modern science! Well, from everything else that Brentano suggests in the first volume of his “Psychology from an Empirical Point of View,” one can already see how he wanted to bring the problem through his five volumes to these fundamental questions of Plato and Aristotle.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"2. 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In ihm findet sich aber doch eine höchst merkwürdige Stelle, in der darauf hingedeutet wird, wie Franz Brentano in der Tat auf die bedeutsamsten psychologischen Probleme hinzielte. Er sagt da: Wenn wahrhaftig alles moderne Denken nur dazu führen sollte, zu untersuchen, wie Vorstellungen auf- und niedersteigen, sich miteinander vergesellschaften, wie sich das Gedächtnis bildet und dergleichen, und wenn man darüber nur zur Ungewißheit kommen könnte über die eigentlichen psychologischen Fragen eines Plato und Aristoteles, zum Beispiel, ob die Seele erhalten bleibe, wenn ihr äußerer physischer Leib zerfällt, dann hätte man durch die moderne Wissenschaftlichkeit wahrhaftig für die Bedürfnisse des Menschen nicht viel gewonnen! — Nun, man kann aus allem anderen, was Brentano da andeutet im ersten Bande seiner «Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte», schon ersehen, wie er durch seine fünf Bände hindurch das Problem bis zu diesen Grundfragen des Plato und Aristoteles bringen wollte.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":236,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/76/1921-04-04/p062"}],"english":["GA 76/1921-04-04/p062"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":236,"en_words":243,"ratio":1.03,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.02,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8785,"original_word_count":8635,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA076/English/SOL2024/19210404p01.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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