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If one is to believe Mephistopheles, even the devil seems to be bound to keep a promise and the explanation of this state of affairs requires more than just a few words.
Was man verspricht, das sollst du rein genießen,
Dir wird davon nichts abgezwackt.
Doch das ist nicht so kurz zu fassen,
Und wir besprechen das zunächst; [...]1
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All that is promised shall delight thee purely;
No skinflint bargain shalt thou see.
But this is not of swift conclusion;
We’ll talk about the matter soon. [. . .]
J.W. Goethe: Faust I, 3. Eds. Robert Hernon Fife, Ashley H. Thomdike.
Adolf Reinach: The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law; in: Aletheia, Volume III; Irving, Texas 1983, ed: Josef Seifert and others. = “trans.”
Adolf Reinach: Die apriorischen Grundlagen des bürgerlichen Rechts.
Halle a.d.S. 1913, in: Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, Band 1, Teil II, Hrsg: Edmund Husserl u.a. = “J”.
Halle a.d.S. 1921, in: Gesammelte Schriften, Hrsg: Hedwig Conrad-Martius u.a. = “GS”.
John Searle: Speech Acts. Cambridge 1969. = “SA”.
“I cannot promise to have done something, and I cannot promise that someone else will do something (although I can promise to see that he will do it”). (SA 57).
Adolf Reinach “Concerning Phenomenology” in The Personalist. Los Angeles 50, 1959, 194–221, “CP”, “Über Phänomenologie”.
in: “Was ist Phänomenologie?” München 1951, Hrsg: Hedwig Conrad-Martius. “WiP”. II) in: Gesammelte Schriften. Halle a.d.S. 1921. Hrsg: Hedwig Conrad-Martius u.a. “GS”.
This sentence has not been translated at CP, 212.
On this point I have to refer to the original text. See J 701 and GS 184.
And now, I do entreat this boon —
Leave to withdraw from my intrusion.
J.W. Goethe: Faust I, 3 Eds. Robert Hernon Fife, Ashley H. Thorndike, New York 1941, 57.
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Hoffmann, K. (1987). Reinach and Searle on Promising — a Comparison. In: Mulligan, K. (eds) Speech Act and Sachverhalt. Primary Sources in Phenomenology, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3521-1_3
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