Franz Brentano ; English edition edited and translated by Elizabeth Hughes Schneewind.
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London :
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Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
SERIES
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Routledge revivals
GENERAL NOTES
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Title from PDF title page (viewed Sept. 30, 2009).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Introduction; PART ONE: THE PRINCIPLES OF ETHICAL KNOWLEDGE; I The Extent to which Principles of Knowledge can be an Object of Investigation and Controversy; II The Dispute about the Principles of Ethical Knowledge; III Are the Principles of Ethics Cognitions or Feelings?; IV Are the Epistemological Principles Underlying Ethics Synthetic a priori Cognitions?; V The Concept of the Right End; VI Critique of the Various Definitions of the Right End; VII A New Attempt to Give Ethics a Foundation.
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Expanding on the theory of ethics first posited by Brentano in The Origin of our Knowledge of Right and Wrong this re-issued work, first published posthumously in 1952, is based on series of lectures on practical philosophy, given at the university of Vienna from 1876 to 1894. The English-speaking reader will find it interesting to examine the step-by-step development of Brentano's ethical theory, his extensive critique of British moral philosophers, and his unusually detailed section on casuistry.