Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Thomas Hobbes, A.E. Taylor and Harry G. Frankfurt
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / d. Subjective value
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It is by caring about things that we infuse the world with importance [Frankfurt]
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If you don't care about at least one thing, you can't find reasons to care about anything [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
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There is no absolute good, for even the goodness of God is goodness to us [Hobbes]
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What is worthwhile for its own sake alone may be worth very little [Frankfurt]
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Our criteria for evaluating how to live offer an answer to the problem [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Desire and love are the same, but in the desire the object is absent, and in love it is present [Hobbes]
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Rather than loving things because we value them, I think we value things because we love them [Frankfurt]
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Love can be cool, and it may not involve liking its object [Frankfurt]
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The paradigm case of pure love is not romantic, but that between parents and infants [Frankfurt]
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I value my children for their sake, but I also value my love for them for its own sake [Frankfurt]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / i. Self-interest
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All voluntary acts aim at some good for the doer [Hobbes]
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