Husserl and Stumpf

pp. 83-123

in: Robin Rollinger, Husserl's position in the school of Brentano, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

Everything folded before the great tasks of philosophical and religious rebirth. Sharp thinking was in fact not my inclination until then; on the contrary, it was rather unpleasant to me. Only Brentano’s iron discipline made the need for logical clarity and consistency second nature. [ ... ] The thesis which he defended in his habilitation, that the true philosophical method is none other than the one of natural science, was and remained for me a guiding star.2