Safranski, BGE
Re Brentano: "The question that agitated Brentano was the nature of God's existence. If there is a God, what does "there" mean? Is he an idea in our head? Is he outside in the world as its quintessence, as its highest being? In subtle analysis, Brentano discovers that there is a third category, between the subjective idea and the 'in-itself' of things - the 'intentional objects'. Ideas...are not purely internal, but are always ideas "of something". They are awareness of something that is...something that offers itself and presents itself to one. There intentional objects are something, on other words: they cannot be dissolved into the subjective actions through which we enter into relation with them. In this manner Brentano prepares an entire separate world of what is, a world occupying an intermediate position in the customary subject-object pattern" 24
SEP entry on Brentano:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brentano/
Re Brentano: "The question that agitated Brentano was the nature of God's existence. If there is a God, what does "there" mean? Is he an idea in our head? Is he outside in the world as its quintessence, as its highest being? In subtle analysis, Brentano discovers that there is a third category, between the subjective idea and the 'in-itself' of things - the 'intentional objects'. Ideas...are not purely internal, but are always ideas "of something". They are awareness of something that is...something that offers itself and presents itself to one. There intentional objects are something, on other words: they cannot be dissolved into the subjective actions through which we enter into relation with them. In this manner Brentano prepares an entire separate world of what is, a world occupying an intermediate position in the customary subject-object pattern" 24
SEP entry on Brentano:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brentano/
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