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THE REASONS OF LOVE - HARRY G FRANKFURT TASCHEN...

In The Reasons of Love  leading moral philosopher and bestselling author Harry Frankfurt argues
that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about  that love is
the most authoritative form of caring  and that the purest form of love is  in a complicated
way  self-love. Through caring  we infuse the world with meaning. Caring provides us with
stable ambitions and concerns  it shapes the framework of aims and interests within which we
lead our lives. Frankfurt goes on to explain that the most important form of caring is love  a
nonvoluntary  disinterested concern for the flourishing of what is loved. And he contends that
the purest form of love is self-love. This sounds perverse  but self-love--as distinct from
self-indulgence--is at heart a disinterested concern for whatever it is that the person loves.
The most elementary form of self-love is nothing more than the desire of a person to love.
Insofar as this is true  self-love is simply a commitment to finding meaning in our lives.

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