Full Idea
Identifying the criteria to be employed in evaluating various ways of living is also tantamount to providing an answer to the question of how to live.
Gist of Idea
Our criteria for evaluating how to live offer an answer to the problem
Source
Harry G. Frankfurt (The Reasons of Love [2005], 1.10)
Book Reference
Frankfurt,Harry G.: 'The Reasons of Love' [Princeton 2006], p.25
A Reaction
Presumably critical reflection is still possible about those criteria, even though he implies that they just arise out of you (in a rather Nietzschean way). The fear is that critical reflection on basic criteria kills in infant in its cradle.