The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and WrongBrentano, Franz
Philosophy
The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong
Brentano, Franz
Ethics
46. Necessity of guarding against overlooking the distinction between
ethical and pseudo-ethical development 39
47. Value of such developments in the pre-ethical time; establishment
of the social order; formation of dispositions; outlines of laws
at the disposal of legislative ethical authority; security against
doctrinaire tendencies 39
48. Beneficent influences which still operate continually
from this side 41
49. A further word on the reform of politico-legal studies 42
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13. In defence of my characterization of Herbart’s ethical criterion 44
14. Of Kant’s Categorical Imperative 44
16. The Nicomachean Ethics and Ihering’s “fundamental idea” in
his work; _Der Zweck im Recht_ 46
17. Of the cases of smaller chances in the effort after higher ends 46
18. Of the dependence of the conceptions upon concrete perceptions 46
19. The term “intentional” 47
21. The fundamental classification of mental states in Descartes 47
22. Windelband’s error in respect of the fundamental classification of
mental states; short defence of various attacks upon my _Psychology
from the Empirical Standpoint_; Land, on a supposed improvement on
formal logic; Steinthal’s criticism of my doctrine of judgment 50
23. In criticism of Sigwart’s theories of the existential and
negative judgments 55
24. Descartes on the relation of “love” to “joy” and of “hate” to
“sadness” 69
25. Of the notions of truth and existence 69
26. Of the unity of the notion of the good 71
27. Of “evidence.” Descartes “Clara et distincta perceptio.” Sigwart’s
doctrine of “evidence” and his “postulates” 71
28. Of ethical subjectivism. Aristotle’s oversight in respect of the
source of our knowledge of the good. Parallels between his
error in respect of the feelings (Gemütsthätigkeit), and Descartes’
doctrine of the “Clara et distincta perceptio” as a pre-condition
of the logically justified judgment; modern views which approach
to this doctrine 78
29. Of the expressions “gut gefallen” and “schlecht gefallen” 84
31. Typical case of a constant geometrical relation of mental values 85
32. Cases in which something at the same time both pleases and
displeases 85
33. Establishment of universal laws of valuation on the basis of a
single experience 86
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