The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and WrongBrentano, Franz
Philosophy
The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong
Brentano, Franz
Ethics
16. The problem: which end is right? the chief problem of ethics 11
17. The right end is the best among attainable ends; obscureness
of this definition 11
18. Of the origin of the conception of the good; it has not its origin in
the sphere of the so-called external impression 12
19. The common characteristic of everything psychical 12
20. The three fundamental classes of psychical phenomena; idea
(Vorstellung), judgment, feeling (Gemütsbewegung) 13
21. The contrasts, belief and denial, love and hate 15
22. Of these opposed modes of relation one is always right, one wrong 15
23. The conception of the good 15
24. Distinction of the good in the narrow sense from what is good for
the sake of some other good 16
25. Love is not always a proof that an object is worthy to be loved 16
26. “Blind” and “self-evident” judgment 17
27. Analogous distinction in the sphere of pleasure and displeasure;
criterion of the good 18
28. Plurality of the good; problems associated therewith 21
29. Whether by “the better” is to be understood that which deserves
to be loved with more intensity 21
30. Right determination of the conception 22
31. When and how do we recognize that anything is in itself preferable?
The case of the opposite, of absence, of the addition of
like to like 23
32. Cases where the problem is insoluble 25
33. Whether the Hedonists in this respect would have the advantage 26
34. Why these failures prove less disadvantageous than might
be feared 27
35. The sphere of the highest practical good 28
36. The harmonious development 28
37. The natural sanction respecting the limits of right 29
38. The natural sanction for positive ethical laws 29
39. The power of the natural sanction 30
40. True and false relativity respecting ethical rules 30
41. Derivation of well known special enactments 32
42. Why other philosophers, by other ways, arrive at the same goal 32
43. Whence arise the universally extended ethical truths? Unclearness
concerning processes in one’s own consciousness 33
44. Trace of the influence of the moments severally mentioned 35
45. Lower currents exercising an influence 37
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