The Importance of What We Care About Harry G. Frankfurt

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Zusammenfassung

This 1988 volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind. By focusing on the distinctive nature of human freedom, Professor Frankfurt is able to explore fundamental problems of what it is to be a person and of what one should care about in life.

The Importance of What We Care About Zusammenfassung

The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays Harry G. Frankfurt

This 1988 volume is a collection of thirteen seminal essays on ethics, free will, and the philosophy of mind. The essays deal with such central topics as freedom of the will, moral responsibility, the concept of a person, the structure of the will, the nature of action, the constitution of the self, and the theory of personal ideals. By focusing on the distinctive nature of human freedom, Professor Frankfurt is able to explore fundamental problems of what it is to be a person and of what one should care about in life.

The Importance of What We Care About Bewertungen

'Harry G. Frankfurt is one of the great philosophers of our time. For those who lament that contemporary academic philosophy has become too technical and detached from basic questions of human meaning and value, . . .[On Bullshit is] a breath of fresh air.' Robert George, Princeton University, Princeton Alumni Weekly

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Sources; 1. Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility; 2. Freedom of the will and the concept of a person; 3. Coercion and moral responsibility; 4. Three concepts of free action; 5. Identification and externality; 6. The problem of action; 7. The importance of what we care about; 8. What we are mortally responsible for; 9. Necessity and desire; 10. On bullshit; 11. Equality as a moral ideal; 12. Identification and wholeheartedness; 13. Rationality and the unthinkable.

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GOR001990280

ISBN 13

9780521336116

ISBN 10

0521336112

Titel

The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays Harry G. Frankfurt

Autor

Harry G. Frankfurt

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Broschiert

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Datum

1988-05-27

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202

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