Foundation and Construction of Ethics (Routledge Revivals)

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.