Download or read book The Foundation and Construction of Ethics (Routledge Revivals) written by Franz Brentano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.