布伦塔诺对心理现象与物理现象的区分探析

Brentano’s Analysis of the Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena

在《心理现象与物理现象的区别》一文中,布伦塔诺区分了心理现象与物理现象。不仅如此,他还提出并分析了关于这两种现象不同的把握方式:物理现象由外知觉所把握;心理现象由内知觉所觉知。在此基础上,布伦塔诺给出了关于心理现象更为统一的定义。本文通过探析布伦塔诺关于心理现象与物理现象的区分,除了要揭示出两种现象的差异之外,更重要的是领会区分的深刻意义,即人与物之间是不同的,故不能用研究物的方式去研究人。

In his article “The Distinction between Mental and Physical Phenomena”, Brentano distinguished between mental and physical phenomena. Not only that, he also proposed and analyzed the differ-ent ways of grasping these two phenomena: physical phenomena are grasped by external percep-tion, and mental phenomena are known by inner perception. On this basis, Brentano gave a more uniform definition of psychological phenomena. By analyzing Brentano’s distinction between men-tal phenomena and physical phenomena, this paper not only reveals the difference between the two phenomena, but more importantly understands the profound meaning of the distinction, that is, people and things are different, so people cannot be studied in the way of studying things.