Thank you so much for this comprehensive and highly useful video! I'm fascinated by Frankfurt, especially his thought experiment on moral responsibility is absolutely stunning!
Thank you so much for making this video! I'm writing an essay on free will at University and I was really struggling to understand all the "A wants to X" examples that Frankfurt laid out... the wording was a bit confusing for me. If I had more time to spend with the paper I might have eventually understood, but your explanation was fantastic! It broke his paper down perfectly! Thank you!
Hi Professor Cushing! I am on page 15 in Frankfurt’s essay. I am confused by why the unwilling addict is not considered to have free will. If I correctly understood it, on page 15 Frankfurt states that if a Person has free will it does not matter if he can translate his first order desires into action. Then why is the unwilling addicts will not free? The unwilling addict can still want to want what he wants to want, but he is just not able to translate it into action.
It's because of the SECOND order desires. You are free if your first order desires that are effective are the ones that your second order desires want to be effective. This is not the case in the unwilling addict - hence the "unwilling".
@@SimonCushing Thanks for replying so fast! Okay, so now just to clarify before I ask my next question. Is saying 'to make a desire effective' the same as saying 'putting that desire into action'?
Thank you so much for this comprehensive and highly useful video! I'm fascinated by Frankfurt, especially his thought experiment on moral responsibility is absolutely stunning!
Thank you so much for making this video! I'm writing an essay on free will at University and I was really struggling to understand all the "A wants to X" examples that Frankfurt laid out... the wording was a bit confusing for me. If I had more time to spend with the paper I might have eventually understood, but your explanation was fantastic! It broke his paper down perfectly! Thank you!
Wonderful explanation!
Thank you!!! Currently reading the paper in my philosophy of mind course. I’m glad I looked up the paper on you tube for a lecture (if possible)
Its wonderful
20:04 Did you mean you were pointing to a desire that WAS effective? You said "wasn't". Please let me know if this was a mistake.
Hi Professor Cushing! I am on page 15 in Frankfurt’s essay. I am confused by why the unwilling addict is not considered to have free will. If I correctly understood it, on page 15 Frankfurt states that if a Person has free will it does not matter if he can translate his first order desires into action. Then why is the unwilling addicts will not free? The unwilling addict can still want to want what he wants to want, but he is just not able to translate it into action.
It's because of the SECOND order desires. You are free if your first order desires that are effective are the ones that your second order desires want to be effective. This is not the case in the unwilling addict - hence the "unwilling".
@@SimonCushing Thanks for replying so fast! Okay, so now just to clarify before I ask my next question. Is saying 'to make a desire effective' the same as saying 'putting that desire into action'?
@@Hugo-hd2fq So if I don't answer this question I don't have to answer your next question? (The answer is yes.)
I understand you have no choice but to talk in circles, and I have no choice but to understand.