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Ideas of Harry G. Frankfurt, by Text
[American, b.1929, At Yale University, then at Princeton University.]
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1971
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Freedom of the Will and concept of a person
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p.2
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20015
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Freedom of action needs the agent to identify with their reason for acting [Wilson/Schpall]
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Intro
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p.82
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9264
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Persons are distinguished by a capacity for second-order desires
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§I
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p.84
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9265
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The will is the effective desire which actually leads to an action
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§II
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p.86
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9270
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A 'wanton' is not a person, because they lack second-order volitions
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§II
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p.86
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9266
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A person essentially has second-order volitions, and not just second-order desires
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§III
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p.90
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9267
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Free will is the capacity to choose what sort of will you have
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§IV
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p.93
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9269
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A person may be morally responsible without free will
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1.10
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p.23
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9232
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It is by caring about things that we infuse the world with importance
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1.10
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p.25
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9233
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Our criteria for evaluating how to live offer an answer to the problem
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1.11
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p.26
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9234
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If you don't care about at least one thing, you can't find reasons to care about anything
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1.2
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p.6
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9227
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We might not choose a very moral life, if the character or constitution was deficient
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1.5
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p.12
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9228
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Ranking order of desires reveals nothing, because none of them may be considered important
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1.5
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p.13
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9229
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What is worthwhile for its own sake alone may be worth very little
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1.6
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p.16
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9230
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People want to fulfill their desires, but also for their desires to be sustained
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1.8
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p.20
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9231
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Freedom needs autonomy (rather than causal independence) - embracing our own desires and choices
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2.13
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p.65
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9240
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Love creates a necessity concerning what to care about
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2.14
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p.68
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9241
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Loving oneself is not a failing, but is essential to a successful life
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2.3
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p.38
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9235
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Rather than loving things because we value them, I think we value things because we love them
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2.4
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p.42
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9236
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Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object
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2.4
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p.43
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9237
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The paradigm case of pure love is not romantic, but that between parents and infants
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2.5 n6
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p.47
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9238
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Morality isn't based on reason; moral indignation is quite unlike disapproval of irrationality
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2.7
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p.51
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9239
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I value my children for their sake, but I also value my love for them for its own sake
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2.8
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p.53
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9300
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Boredom is serious, not just uncomfortable; it threatens our psychic survival
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