The The Difficult Knowledge about Oneself: Reflections on a Text by Brentano
Abstract
The present text aims to review the privilege of self-knowledge as understood by the philosophy of reflection since Descartes. Taking Brentano and his classic distinction between physical and psychic phenomena as a guiding thread, we enter into the question, so often assumed from the philosophy of reflection, of the supposed privilege of self-knowledge as immediate, evident and infallible. A careful examination shows that the mentate and the mentate do not differ precisely in this respect and that the idealist temptation is not correct either. One concludes, on the basis of intentionality and the primary mode in which the intentional object is given to us, that the distinction between the given and the supposedly given remains a task does not exempt from errors because of the depth of the real, but which, as realist philosophers show, are surmountable.
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