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the tanner lectures in moral philosophy Taking Ourselves Seriously Getting It Right Taking Ourselves Seriously & Getting It Right Harry G. Frankfurt Edited by Debra Satz With Comments by Christine M. Korsgaard, Michael E. Bratman, and Meir Dan-Cohen Stanford University Press 2006 Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2006 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper library of congress cataloging-in-publication data Frankfurt, Harry G., 1929– Taking ourselves seriously and getting it right / Harry G. Frankfurt ; edited by Debra Satz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-8047-5298-5 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Conduct of life. 2. Love. 3. Reflection (Philosophy) 4. Self. I. Satz, Debra. II. Title. bj1531.f73 2006 170—dc22 006017978 Designed by Rob Ehle and set in 12/16 Seria. Contents Contributors vii Preface Debra Satz ix the lectures Taking Ourselves Seriously 1 Getting It Right 27 comments Morality and the Logic of Caring 55 Christine M. Korsgaard A Thoughtful and Reasonable Stability 77 Michael E. Bratman Socializing Harry 91 Meir Dan-Cohen Notes 105 Index 117 Contributors harry g. frankfurt is professor emeritus at Prince- ton University. His books include Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes’s Meditations (1970), The Importance of What We Care About: Philosophical Essays (1988), Necessity, Volition, and Love (1999), The Reasons of Love (2004), and On Bullshit (2005). He has written more than 50 scholarly articles, essays, and reviews. michael e. bratman is the Durfee Professor in the School of Humanities & Sciences and professor of philosophy at Stanford University. He is the author of Inten- tion, Plans, and Practical Reason (1987) and Faces of Invention: Selected Essays on Intention and Agency (1999). His book of essay Structures of Agency will be published in 2007. meir dan-cohen is the Milo Reese Robbins Chair in Legal Ethics at Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of Rights, Persons, and viii Contributors Organizations: A Legal Theory for Bureaucratic Society (1986), and Harmful Thoughts: Essays on Law, Self, and Morality (2002). He has published a number of articles in criminal law and in legal and moral philosophy. christine m. korsgaard is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. She is the author of Sources of Normativity (1996), which is an expanded version of her 1992 Tanner lectures, and of Creating the Kingdom of Ends (1996). In addition, she has published numerous articles in moral philosophy. debra satz is associate professor of philosophy and, by courtesy, political science at Stanford University. She is the author of a wide range of articles in political philosophy and is finishing a book, The Limits of the Market, to be published in 2007. Preface debra satz In 2004, distinguished philosopher Harry Frankfurt deliv- ered The Tanner Lectures at Stanford University. The lectures were entitled “Taking Ourselves Seriously” and “Getting it Right.” Commentaries were given by Christine Korsgaard (Harvard University); Michael Bratman (Stanford University); Meir Dan-Cohen (University of California-Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law); and Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis University). The comments of the first three scholars are included within this volume. Frankfurt’s Tanner Lectures are concerned with the struc- ture of our most basic thinking about how to live. For the last thirty years, since the publication of “Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person,” Frankfurt has explored in lucid and elegant prose the nature of what it means to be human. As human beings, we are perhaps uniquely capable of reflecting on ourselves, on who we are and about our reasons for doing what we do. But this cherished ability to reflect,
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