Harry G. Frankfurt

The Importance of What We Care about

Philosophical Essays

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 324g
• ISBN-13: 9780521336116
• ISBN-10: 0521336112
• Artikelnr.: 22209408

Inhaltsangabe

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.