It is not always easy, from the mental universe of Edmund Husserl, break into that of St. Thomas. Husserl's relationship with Franz Brentano can perhaps establish some approximation. In his recollections of Brentano, Husserl himself has told how he had seduced the Brentano method, and how his approach to philosophical issues drew him to philosophy. With Brentano
he understood that philosophy could be something other than gossip distinguished; his teaching showed him that, while driving, philosophical reflection could meet highest scientific standards, which the Mathematical had used. Now, where did he get this Brentano rigor in the conduct of thought, which astonished and captivated as Husserl? Whence came this crystal clear in concept formation? Was not it a legacy of scholasticism.
Brentano had been educated at the school demanding the traditional Catholic philosophy, and had trained the mind to follow the method.
Edith Stein Phenomenology and Christian philosophy, introduced and translated by Secrelan Philibert, IV, "Husserl's phenomenology and philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas"
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