Hägerström"s early work seems to deal more with morals than with theoretical philosophy. However, to deduce content from glancing at the titles is to catch a red herring.²This does not imply that Hägerström did not make considerations in connection with the practical realm of philosophy but that these considerations are less relevant for the understanding of his own intellectual evolution. In fact, the two essays swiftly composed in 1895 – Inquiry into the Possibility of Empirical Ethics and On Feeling and Thrust in Morals – concern some interesting theoretical issues. More specifically, the second essay on the moral feeling builds on the traditional dichotomies between abstract and concrete, rational and sensible.