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Hägerström's Account of Sense of Duty and Certain Allied Experiences1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

C. D. Broad
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge.

Extract

The Swedish philosopher Hägerström, who was professor in Uppsala during the first quarter of the present century, devoted much attention to the philosophical and psychological analysis of moral and legal phenomena. Hägersträm is a difficult writer. He had steeped himself in the works of German philosophers and philosophical jurists, and his professional prose-style both in German and in Swedish had been infected by them so that it resembles glue thickened with sawdust. But he enjoys a very high reputation in his own and adjacent countries, and it seems to me that this is well deserved. I think, therefore, that it may be interesting and useful to try to provide English philosophers with an outline in my own words of Hägerström's doctrines, as I understand them, about the topic named in the title of this paper.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1951

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References

1 Lecture given to the Royal Institute of Philosophy on November 17, 1950.