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'Dthat', 'The Reasons of Love' and 'Letters from a Stoic'
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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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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 / d. Health
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Humans acquired the concept of virtue from an analogy with bodily health and strength [Seneca, by Allen]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
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We know death, which is like before birth; ceasing to be and never beginning are the same [Seneca]
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Living is nothing wonderful; what matters is to die well [Seneca]
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It is as silly to lament ceasing to be as to lament not having lived in the remote past [Seneca]
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22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love
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Is anything sweeter than valuing yourself more when you find you are loved? [Seneca]
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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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Selfishness does not produce happiness; to live for yourself, live for others [Seneca]
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