Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: bullshit
Number of Pages: 80
Published: 2005-01-10
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0691122946
ISBN-13: 9780691122946

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Recorded Books
Keywords: audiobook, bullshit
Published: 2005-05
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1419348876
ISBN-13: 9781419348877

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern. We have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves. And we lack a conscientiously developed appreciation of what it means to us. In other words, as Harry Frankfurt writes, "we have no theory

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: love, reasons
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2004-01-05
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691091641
ISBN-13: 9780691091648

This beautifully written book by one of the world’s leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Harry Frankfurt writes that it is through caring that we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns; it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives. The most basic and essential question for a person to raise about the conduct of

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Knopf
Keywords: truth
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 030726422X
ISBN-13: 9780307264220

Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.Our culture’s devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some people (professional thinkers) won’t even acknowledge "true" and "false" as meaningful categories, and even those who claim to love truth cause the rest of us to wonder whether they, too, aren’t simply full of it. Practically speaking, many of us deploy the truth only when absolutely necessary, often f

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: love, reasons
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2006-01-02
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0691126240
ISBN-13: 9780691126241

This beautifully written book by one of the world’s leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love is, in a complicated way, self-love. Harry Frankfurt writes that it is through caring that we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with stable ambitions and concerns; it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we lead our lives. The most basic and essential question for a person to raise about the conduct of h

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: essays, philosophical, care, importance
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1988-05-27
List price: $15.99
ISBN-10: 0521336112
ISBN-13: 9780521336116

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.

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: love, volition, necessity
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1998-11-28
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521633958
ISBN-13: 9780521633956

This collection of essays complements a successful earlier collection published by Cambridge University Press, The Importance of What We Care About. Some of the essays develop lines of thought found in the earlier volume. They deal in general with foundational metaphysical and epistemological issues concerning Descartes, moral philosophy, and philosophical anthropology. Some bear upon topics in political philosophy and religion. A hallmark of Frankfurt’s work is his crisp and incisive style, which means that these essays should appeal to a wide range of philosophers as well as to readers