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“Freedom of the Will and the Concept of the Person”
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Instead of seeing freedom as the absence of external constraint, he saw freedom as an internal psychological relation between different levels of desire.
You might want to smoke a cigarette, but you also might want not to want to smoke.
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you act freely when the desire that motivates you to act is the one that you want to motivate you to act...«

#RIP
Harry G. Frankfurt
1929 - 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/17/books/harry-g-frankfurt-dead.html

#freewill
#mindbrain

Harry G. Frankfurt, Philosopher With a Surprise Best Seller, Dies at 94

He spent his career exploring will and deceit. Then came a sudden success: a bluntly titled book that found that one strain of dishonesty with a barnyard name was worse than lying.

The New York Times
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HT @ct_bergstrom & Jevin D West for introducing #HarryFrankfurt to me reading their #CallingBullshit book:

» Frankfurt ...described #bullshit as what people create when they try to impress or persuade you, without any concern for whether what they are saying is true or false, correct or incorrect

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Frankfurt's distinction ..lies are designed to lead away from the truth; bullshit is produced with a gross indifference to the truth «

#RIP
Harry G. Frankfurt
1929 - 2023

#OnBullshit

Jul 25, 2023 at 4:46pmWeb