Aristotle’s De Anima according to Franz Brentano. The structure of human soul in The Psychology of Aristotle. In Particular His Doctrine of the Active Intellect and in the context of the other works from the Aristotelica Collection
Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is a part of a project devoted to Brentano’s Aristotelian writings. I concentrate on his habilitation about Aristotle’s psychology, and especially on how he understood Aristotle’s division of mental life into three levels as well as the functions typical for these levels. I analyze two notions that Brentano introduces in his account: Zwischenglieder, meaning intermediary “levels” within the soul enabling smooth passages between the vegetative soul and sensory soul and between the latter and intellectual soul; and Gottverwandtschaft, i.e. human kinship with God, which is possible thanks to the noblest part of the soul. I also introduce two metaphors of the soul: cake-metaphor and fabric-metaphor.
Source: Analiza i Egzystencja
Author: Sonia Kamińska
Institution: University of Szczecin
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2591227530