Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano was a German philosopher and psychologist.
18 Facts About Franz Brentano
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Originally a Catholic priest, Brentano withdrew from the priesthood in 1873 due to the dogmatic definition of papal infallibility in Pastor aeternus.
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Franz Brentano was son of Christian Brentano, brother of Lujo Brentano, and paternal nephew of Clemens Brentano and Bettina von Arnim, and of Gunda and Friedrich von Savigny.
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Franz Brentano studied philosophy at the universities of Munich, Wurzburg, Berlin and Munster.
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Franz Brentano had a special interest in Aristotle and scholastic philosophy.
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Franz Brentano wrote his dissertation in 1862 at Tubingen under the title Von der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles.
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Franz Brentano was ordained a Catholic priest on 6 August 1864.
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Between 1870 and 1873, Franz Brentano was heavily involved in the debate on papal infallibility in matters of Faith.
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Franz Brentano remained deeply religious and dealt with the topic of the existence of God in lectures given at the Universities of Wurzburg and Vienna.
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In 1874 Franz Brentano published his major work, Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint.
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Franz Brentano transferred to Zurich at the outbreak of the First World War, where he died in 1917.
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Franz Brentano used the expression "intentional inexistence" to indicate the status of the objects of thought in the mind.
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The property of being intentional, of having an intentional object, was the key feature to distinguish psychological phenomena and physical phenomena, because, as Franz Brentano defined it, physical phenomena lacked the ability to generate original intentionality, and could only facilitate an intentional relationship in a second-hand manner, which he labeled derived intentionality.
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Franz Brentano introduced a distinction between genetic psychology and descriptive psychology : in his terminology, genetic psychology is the study of psychological phenomena from a third-person point of view, which involves the use of empirical experiments.
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Franz Brentano is well known for claiming that Wahrnehmung ist Falschnehmung that is to say perception is erroneous.
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Franz Brentano attempted to do so without reworking the previous arguments within that work but it has been said that he was wholly unsuccessful.
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Franz Brentano has a theory of judgment which is different from what is currently the predominant view.
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Franz Brentano's focus on conscious intentionality was inherited by Carl Stumpf's Berlin School of experimental psychology, Anton Marty's Prague School of linguistics, Alexius Meinong's Graz School of experimental psychology, Kazimierz Twardowski's Lwow School of philosophy, and Edmund Husserl's phenomenology.