Necessity, Volition, and Love

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Summary: Frankfurt's Second Volume
Review: Harry Frankfurt is one of those philosophers who have the ability to provoke new and interesting discussions in philosophy. This volume contains Frankfurt's articles on Descartes, a few papers in philosophical theology, one paper on egalitarianism, a paper that corrected John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza on whether alternate possibilities were required for being responsible for omissions, and his (important) papers on autonomy. The last paper in the volume, "On Caring," was delivered at the Kant Lectures at Stanford University in 1997. This paper is a much more filled-out account of what Frankfurt takes as caring about something than what appears in his first volume; and this makes the whole volume worth consideration, especially given that you can't get it anywhere else. My suggestion to you is to first purchase Frankfurt's papers in, *The Importance of What We Care About*, and follow up with this set of papers. Finally, read through *Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt* edited by Lee Overton and Sarah Buss. Understanding the papers in this volume will make the issues in the Overton/Buss volume much more intelligible.

Rating:
Summary: Frankfurt's Second Volume
Review: Harry Frankfurt is one of those philosophers who have the ability to provoke new and interesting discussions in philosophy. This volume contains Frankfurt's articles on Descartes, a few papers in philosophical theology, one paper on egalitarianism, a paper that corrected John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza on whether alternate possibilities were required for being responsible for omissions, and his (important) papers on autonomy. The last paper in the volume, "On Caring," was delivered at the Kant Lectures at Stanford University in 1997. This paper is a much more filled-out account of what Frankfurt takes as caring about something than what appears in his first volume; and this makes the whole volume worth consideration, especially given that you can't get it anywhere else. My suggestion to you is to first purchase Frankfurt's papers in, *The Importance of What We Care About*, and follow up with this set of papers. Finally, read through *Contours of Agency: Essays on Themes from Harry Frankfurt* edited by Lee Overton and Sarah Buss. Understanding the papers in this volume will make the issues in the Overton/Buss volume much more intelligible.