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Full Idea
What gives people's desires certain moral importance is the fact that they have desires about those desires.
Gist of Idea
Our desires become important when we have desires about desires
Source
Georges Rey (Contemporary Philosophy of Mind [1997], 11.1)
Book Ref
Rey,Georges: 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' [Blackwell 1997], p.289
A Reaction
from Frankfurt
| 5217 | At times we ought to feel angry, and we ought to desire health and learning [Aristotle] |
| 5236 | It is foolish not to be angry when it is appropriate [Aristotle] |
| 23911 | Possessors of a virtue tend to despise what reason shows to be its opposite [Aristotle] |
| 22590 | Virtue is concerned with correct feelings [Aristotle] |
| 6287 | If you lust after a woman, you have committed adultery [Jesus] |
| 8061 | If morality just is emotion, there are no external criteria for judging emotions [MacIntyre] |
| 6701 | Rescue operations need spontaneous benevolence, not careful thought [Graham] |
| 3221 | Our desires become important when we have desires about desires [Rey] |
| 4346 | The emotions of sympathy, compassion and love are no guarantee of right action or acting well [Hursthouse] |