Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting It Right

I. Taking Ourselves Seriously. II. Getting It Right. HARRY FRANKFURT. The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Delivered at. Stanford University. April 14–16 .
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So, we may not CARE p. The first was Regina v.


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There is a serious problem in that blaming others is pointless unless the other cares what we care about pp. Although the responses demonstrate that there is still work to be done in developing Frankfurt's ideas, the basic ideas are quite attractive.


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    7. In fact, Frankfurt would probably be surprised to discover that Christianity has had this emphasis on love as the basis for ethics since the teachings of Jesus. Unfortunately, ecclesiastical hierarchy and and the romanticizing of the idea of love pushed people away from the basic principle which, in many ways, resonates with Frankfurt's. Jun 09, Ari rated it really liked it. Frankfurt is professor emeritus at Princeton University. In these two lectures, Frankfurt explores the roles of two motivating forces in our lives: Apr 23, Rachel rated it liked it.

    This guy is self-help to non-philosophy major humanities academics who wish they'd studied philosophy. Jun 29, G.


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      4. One thing I appreciated about this book was the straightforward explanation of the importance of caring. Coming from Ivy League faculty it's refreshing. I've since read most of his works and return to this one most often. Feb 11, Josh Paul rated it it was amazing Shelves: Taking Ourselves Seriously is a very good essay, much better than his better known On Bullshit which is enjoyably, but not really very important.

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      Frankfurtian Responsibility Versus Free Will. Greenspan - - The Journal of Ethics 3 4: Harry Frankfurt's Metaphysics of Care: We want our thoughts, our feelings, our choices, and our behavior to make sense. We are not satisfied to think that our ideas are formed haphazardly, or that our actions are driven by transient and opaque impulses or by mindless decisions. We need to direct ourselves—or at any rate to believe that we are directing ourselves—in thoughtful conformity to stable and appropriate norms.

      We want to get things right. The essays delineate two features that have a critical role to play in this: Frankfurt incisively explores the roles of reason and of love in our active lives, and considers the relation between these two motivating forces of our actions.

      Taking Ourselves Seriously & Getting It Right

      The argument is that the authority of practical reason is less fundamental than the authority of love. Love, as the author defines it, is a volitional matter, that is, it consists in what we are actually committed to caring about.

      Frankfurt adds that "The object of love can be almost anything—a life, a quality of experience, a person, a group, a moral ideal, a nonmoral ideal, a tradition, whatever.