Foundation and Construction of Ethics (Routledge Revivals)

<p>Expanding on the theory of ethics first posited by Brentano in <em>The Origin of our Knowledge of Right and Wrong</em> 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.</p><p>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.</p>