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308pp. Library of Philosophical Movements. Selections by Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Edmund Husserl, H A Prichard, E B Holt, W T Marvin, W P Montague, R B Perry, W B Pitkin, E G Spaulding, Samuel Alexander, Bertrand Russell, Arthur C. Lovejoy, G E Moore Two small spots on spine, light cover rubbing/soil, binding lightly cocked: VG-/no dj.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. A smart first translated edition of this philosophical study from German scholar Franz Brentano, signed and inscribed by the translator Elizabeth Hughes Schneewind. First translated edition. With an inscription from the translator to the front free endpaper that reads: "To Wilmarth S. Lewis, with grateful remembrance of my Yale fellowship and the training which made this work possible. Elizabeth H. Schneewind. Jan 5, 1970." This message is dedicated to Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, an American scholar, collector, and the preeminent authority on the English writer and politician Horace Walpole. With Lewis's bookplate to the front pastedown of this volume. A discussion of the most fundamental principles of Ethics, allowing for great advances in theory and the basis of new analysis. Written by Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Josef Brentano, a German philosopher and psychologist credited with having reintroduced the medieval scholastic concept of intentionality into contemporary philosophy. Edited by Oskar Kraus, a Czech philosopher and jurist. With the English edition edited and translated by Roderick Milton Chisholm, an American philosopher. Translated by Elizabeth Hughes Schneewind, an American philosopher and translator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with minor wear and the odd small closed tear to the extremities. Light sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout with the previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Near Fine. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.…