Brentano: Value
Edited by Uriah Kriegel (Rice University)
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Summary | Brentano is widely regarded as the first, or at least among the first, to propose a fitting-attitude account of value. According to his account, an object or state of affairs is good just in case it is correct to love it (but Brentano's notion of love is very wide). Brentano's work on this strongly impressed G.E. Moore, but was brought to prominence again mostly by Chisholm, as well as some of his students. More recently, Brentano's contributions have been discussed in the context of various issues surrounding buck-passing accounts of value. A related topic of scholarship is the influence of Brentano on economic thought, both Austrian and Keynesian. Note well: although this category focuses mostly on ethical value, it also covers works by and on Brentano on aesthetic value. |
Key works | Brentano's central work in this area is Brentano 1889/1969. Essays and lecture notes of relevance were posthumously collected in Brentano 1973. His work directly influenced the ethical work of Meinong and Ehrenfels, whose Meinong 1894 and von Ehrenfels 1897 are unfortunately unavailable in English (but see Marek 2009 and Smith 1986). The earliest prominent English-language discussion of Brentano's ethical work is Moore 1903. The revival of Brentano in modern metaethics is largely due to a single work: Chisholm 1986. A number of Chisholm students developed the view further - see especially Lemos 1994 and Zimmerman 2001. Work on Brentano's aesthetics is quite limited, mostly because his essays and notes on the subject, collected posthumously in Brentano 1959, remain untranslated. Still, useful expository work on Brentano's aesthetics is provided by Pasquerella 1992 (another Chisholm student). For the connection between the ethics and the aesthetics, see Baumgartner & Pasquerella 2004. For Brentano's influence on Austrian economics, see Smith 1994, and for his influence on Keynes, see Baldwin 2006. |
Introductions | Brentano 1889/1969 is sufficiently lucid to serve as its own introduction, but no other work parallels Chisholm 1986. A shorter good introduction is Simons 2013. |
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Siblings:
- Brentano: Consciousness (237)
- Brentano: Intentionality (265)
- Brentano: Judgment (169)
- Brentano: Metaphysics (237)
- Brentano's Works (145)
- Brentano and Other Philosophers (408)
- Brentano School (518)
- Brentano, Misc (285)
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