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On Harry G. Frankfurt’s ‘The Importance of What We Care About’

Tucker Lieberman
11 min readMay 5, 2023

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person feeding pigeons out of their hands
Feeding pigeons by Susanne Jutzeler, Schweiz from Pixabay

The philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt (b. 1929) collected 13 essays—12 reprints, one new—in The Importance of What We Care About (1988). ⬅️That’s my Bookshop affiliate link.

The essays are in chronological order with only a brief preface, which may inform us about…

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Tucker Lieberman

Editor for Prism & Pen. Author of the novel "Most Famous Short Film of All Time." https://tuckerlieberman.com/