PHIL 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Harry Frankfurt, Compatibilism, Chocolate Cake
30 Apr 2019
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These are desires simple in nature and resemble animal desires to eat, sleep, feel comfortable: second-order desires. According to frankfurt, the following features distinguishes persons from non-persons; persons have second-order desires. + i want my desire for the chocolate cake to be effective. Second-order desires are complex and arise from analysis, comparison, and identification. The bottom line about second-order desires is that we can reflect on our current set of desires, evaluate them, and form second-level desires about those desires. Frankfurt makes a distinction between two types of 2nd-order desires: one that illustrates freedom of the will and one that doesn"t. In the first case we have a desire about which of our 1st-order desires will cause us to act. In the second, we want to have the experience of having a particular 1st-order desire, but we don"t want to actually act on that first order desire.
