He is convinced that guilt depends entirely on the Court, is altogether a matter of authority. K.'s guilt entails his lacking any such concept of absolute guilt. Guilt would be objective, independent of any finding by the Court. His trial tests whether he is likely to experience intrinsically correct emotions. Then, actual acquittal would be just despite his guilt when arrested. could become innocent by acquiring the lacking concepts. Basic moral concepts arise like all others from perception. Like judgments, affects are either blind or evident. Acquaintance with good, evil, better, and worse is acquired, Brentano insisted, only by perceiving certain affects to be correct.

Since there is a plurality of intrinsic goods, authentic action requires recognizing the chosen action to be better than its alternatives. The myth gives important clues to the imagery of the parable 'Before the Law.' Every authentic act of willing requires that something be desired for its own sake. Without insight into the natural sanction for correct positive laws, citizens cannot fulfill the duty rationally to choose positive laws: citizens will wrong one another, cities perish, humankind will be threatened. In the Prometheus myth, a sense of justice and right is necessary for politically organized society. is unaware that absolute guilt is possible. K.'s quest for a person to exert such influence on his behalf is evidence of his guilt. Conventional guilt or innocence is subject to influence. Natural norms, have a cognizable inherent correctness any other norms oblige only through being authoritatively decreed. The opposite of 'natural' in the phrase 'natural law' is not 'acquired' but 'conventional.' Acquaintance with natural norms is entirely acquired: persons having no such acquaintance can exist K.

Brentano adamantly rejected all forms of nativism. is tried for violating a law which is no positive law but a necessary condition for all positive law since all positive laws imply that they ought to be obeyed. Issues involved in these conceptions are cogently illustrated in The Trial. 'Wagenbach demonstrated Kafka's familiarity with unique conceptions, in the work of Brentano and his Prague followers, of natural law and ethics.

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