The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong
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The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong is by Franz Brentano. The title page names Cecil Hague as the English translator and says the book comes with a biographical note. A preface says the present translation owes its origin to a desire on the part of the translator of bringing to the wider notice of his fellow-countrymen a work which has proved beneficial and stimulating to himself.
The text quotes Leibnitz, speaking of himself in his Vita a se ipso lineata, as saying “I found that my earlier studies in history and philosophy lightened materially my study of law.” The text says the advocates of the view that only the good can be loved, only the bad hated, are really compelled to assume that, in this sphere, each is himself the measure of all things. The text mentions a form of subjectivism formerly committed by Protagoras respecting the notions of truth and falsehood.
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- Franz Brentano
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