This volume presents Brentano's last word in a decades-long literary feud with the eminent Berlin historian of philosophy, Eduard Zeller (1814–1908), in which he once again lays out his arguments for Aristotle's creatianism, that is, the doctrine that the human nus as a part of divine thinking has not existed for eternity but is created by the Aristotelian deity directly and survives the body's decay.
