ABSTRACT
Harry Frankfurt (2004), in his Tanner Lectures on Human Values, entitled ‘Taking Ourselves Seriously’, states that humans seem to be the only things around that are even capable of taking themselves seriously, adding:
Two features of our nature are centrally implicated in this: our rationality and our ability to love. Reason and love play critical roles in determining what we think and how we are moved to conduct ourselves …. It is reason and love – the directives of our heads and of our hearts – that we expect to equip us most effectively to accomplish this. (pp. 169–70)
We care about things only for their instrumental value. They are intermediate goals for us. we need final ends … I believe our final ends are provided and legitimized by love. (p. 185)
