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Ep. 363: Franz Brentano's Moral Epistemology (Part Two)
Published 1 year, 1 month ago
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Continuing on "The Origin of the Knowledge of Right and Wrong" (1889), getting into how we measure the comparative value of things. While Brentano does observe actual practices in these areas, his phenomenology detects moral facts that can be used to cast judgments of people's actual practices, saving him from relativism.
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