The reasons of love /
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. Harr...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
[2006]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rqh3 |
| Summary: | 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 his or. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (100 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826063 1400826063 0691091641 9780691091648 |