Brentano and intrinsic value / Roderick M. Chisholm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chisholm, Roderick M.

Series:

Modern European philosophy

Modern European philosophy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brentano, Franz, 1838-1917.

Brentano, Franz.

Physical Description:

xiii, 105 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Summary:

Franz Brentano developed an original theory of intrinsic value which he attempted to base on his philosophical psychology. Roderick Chisholm presents here a critical exposition of his theory and its place in his general philosophical system. He gives a detailed account of Brentano's ontology, showing how Brentano tried to secure objectivity for ethics not through a theory of practical reason, but through his theory of the intentional objects of emotions and desires. Professor Chisholm goes on to develop certain suggestions about intrinsic value made by Brentano and his students, and discusses their relevance to theodicy and the problem of evil.

Brentano, as the teacher of Husserl, Meinong, Twardowski, and others, stands at the origin of the phenomenological tradition and of the Polish school of philosophy that developed after World War I. He has also had considerable influence on Anglo-American philosophy. This book will interest those concerned with the origins of phenomenological value theory and more generally with the connections between ethics and philosophical psychology.

Contents:

2 Thought and its objects 9

3 The phenomena of love and hate 17

4 Correct judgment 33

5 Correct emotion 47

6 The hierarchy of values 59

7 Organic unities 69

8 Evil 91.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0521264375

052126989X

OCLC:

13795435