The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays,9780521336116

The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays

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ISBN13: 9780521336116
ISBN10: 0521336112
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1988-05-27
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This 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 ale to explore fundamental problems of what it is to be a person and of what one should care about in life.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Sources x
Alternate possibilities and moral responsibility
1(10)
Freedom of the will and the concept of a person
11(15)
Coercion and moral responsibility
26(21)
Three concepts of free action
47(11)
Identification and externality
58(11)
The problem of action
69(11)
The importance of what we care about
80(15)
What we are morally responsible for
95(9)
Necessity and desire
104(13)
On bullshit
117(17)
Equality as a moral ideal
134(25)
Identification and wholeheartedness
159(18)
Rationality and the unthinkable
177

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