Mind and Intentionality in Brentano's Philosophy

Study on the nature of the mind and the question of mental intentionality in Franz Brentano's philosophy and its importance for psychology and philosophy

Abstract

In this work I seek to make an incursion into some aspects of the life and work of Franz Brentano, a German philosopher, whose geographical epicenter of his works took place, mainly, in Vienna, Austria and Florence, Italy. In this context, I sought to know the origins and foundations of Brentano's thought that led him to have such a profound impact on the direction of the philosophy and psychology of his time. His most prominent work Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint, not yet translated into Portuguese, served as a guide for the proposed objectives. Thus, psychology was treated as a science of the mind, of physical and mental phenomena and its criteria of distinction, of the classification given by Brentano to mental phenomena, where he divided them into representation, judgment and feelings of love and hate and, finally, of its concept of intentionality.