हैरी फ्रैंकफ़र्ट
स्वतंत्र होने का अर्थ उन इच्छाओं पर चलना है जिन्हें हम रखना चाहते हैं, जिससे हम प्रेम करते हैं वह हमारे जीवन को अर्थ देता है, और “बकवास” झूठ बोलने से भी बुरी है क्योंकि उसे सत्य की परवाह ही नहीं होती।
पृष्ठभूमि
प्रिंसटन के दार्शनिक: व्यक्ति कुछ इच्छाएँ रखना चाह सकता है, और इच्छा की स्वतंत्रता उस इच्छा पर चलना है जिसे कोई चाहता है; कोई विकल्पों के बिना भी उत्तरदायी हो सकता है – और बकवास झूठ बोलने से भी बुरी है, क्योंकि उसे सत्य की परवाह ही नहीं होती।
मुख्य विचार
- द्वितीय-क्रम की इच्छाएँ
- फ्रैंकफ़र्ट मामले
- बकवास के विषय में (On Bullshit)
- प्रेम के कारण
प्रभाव
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रने देकार्त
जिनसे प्रभावित ✓
Frankfurt read Descartes’s Meditations as a defence of reason, asking whether reason can vindicate itself against doubts from demons, dreams and madness (Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen, 1970). H. G. Frankfurt, Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen: The Defense of Reason in Descartes’s Meditations (1970); SEP “René Descartes”
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रने देकार्त › 1596–1650
मत
Frankfurt’s 1969 paper attacked the “principle of alternate possibilities”, the assumption that a person is morally responsible only if they could have done otherwise. In “Frankfurt cases” a hidden controller would intervene if the agent were about to choose differently, but never needs to; the agent acts on their own and is responsible, although they could not have done otherwise. His 1971 essay defined persons by “second-order desires”: we can want to have, or not to have, our desires, and freedom of the will consists in acting on the desire one wants to be effective – the unwilling addict is unfree, while the “wanton” does not care which desire wins. Later work moved from the will to love: what we care about, and above all what we love, gives our lives their shape and is itself a source of reasons rather than a response to them. “On Bullshit” distinguishes the bullshitter from the liar: the liar must know the truth in order to hide it, whereas the bullshitter is indifferent to it, which makes bullshit a greater enemy of truth than lies. “On Inequality” argued that what matters morally is that everyone has enough, not that everyone has the same.
जीवन और संदर्भ
Harry Frankfurt (1929–2023) was born in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, and adopted as an infant. He studied at Johns Hopkins University, where he took his doctorate in 1954. He taught at Ohio State, at Rockefeller University in New York until its philosophy programme closed in 1976, and at Yale, where he chaired the department for nine years. From 1990 he taught at Princeton, becoming professor emeritus in 2002. His essay “On Bullshit”, first published in 1986, became an unexpected bestseller when it was reissued as a small book in 2005. He died in Santa Monica, California, at the age of ninety-four.
प्रमुख कृतियाँ
- Alternate Possibilities and Moral Responsibility (1969)
- Demons, Dreamers, and Madmen (1970)
- Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person (1971)
- The Importance of What We Care About (1988)
- The Reasons of Love (2004)
- On Bullshit (1986; book 2005)
- On Inequality (2015)
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