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What is good? Brentano’s formal answer is: that toward which it is fitting to take a pro attitude. But one may ask the question hoping also for a material answer. In other words: toward which things is it fitting to take a pro attitude? Brentano’s normative ethics offers an answer to this question. At the heart of his answer is a list of four things which are good in and of themselves. Abruptly put, they are: (i) conscious activity, (ii) pleasure, (iii) knowledge, and (iv) fitting attitudes. This chapter offers a critical fuller exposition of the ethics founded on these four goods.
Title: Ethics
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What is good? Brentano’s formal answer is: that toward which it is fitting to take a pro attitude.
But one may ask the question hoping also for a material answer.
In other words: toward which things is it fitting to take a pro attitude? Brentano’s normative ethics offers an answer to this question.
At the heart of his answer is a list of four things which are good in and of themselves.
Abruptly put, they are: (i) conscious activity, (ii) pleasure, (iii) knowledge, and (iv) fitting attitudes.
This chapter offers a critical fuller exposition of the ethics founded on these four goods.
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