# The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong

Author: Brentano, Franz, 1838-1917; Hague, Cecil [Translator]

Genre: Category: Philosophy & Ethics

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49228

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## Summary

[16] (_p. 11_). Cf. with what has been said in the lecture the first chapter of the Nicomachian Ethics, and it will be seen that Ihering’s “fundamental thought” in his work _Der Zweck im Recht_, vol. i. p. vi., viz.: “that no legal formula exists which does not owe its origin to an end,” is as old as ethics itself.

## Chapters

- [i. 4) where he denies that there is any uniform notion of the good](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-the-knowledge-of-right-and-wrong-49228/chapters/2/index.md)
- [part ii.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-origin-of-the-knowledge-of-right-and-wrong-49228/chapters/1/index.md)