8.3: Review and Discussion Questions
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- Explain Aristotle’s view of Philia.
- What is it to love one’s self on Frankfurt’s account?
- How is love of the self the purest form of love? How doe Frankfurt handle the two complications for his analysis of self love he raises at the end of section 9?
- How is self love different from self indulgence? What does Frankfurt mean by “wholeheartedness” and how does this bear on self love.
- How does Frankfurt see self love as related to morality?
- How does he see it as related to the meaningfulness of one’s life? Do think he is right on these points?
- How does Frankfurt’s analysis of love as wholeheartness square with Aristotle’s view of virtue and happiness?
- Explain the apparent tension between eros and Philia.
- Explain the view of erotic love voiced by Socrates in the Symposium.
- Explain Nozick’s union model of love. What problems does it raise?
- What problems are inherent in the idea that the search for love is a quest for one’s ideal other half or “soul mate”?
- How does the cycle of infatuation, disillusionment, and heartbreak work? Explain the role of the imagination in this.
- What failings do the consumerist conception of the good life and the vision of love as a quest for one’s “soul mate” share?
- How do we bestow value in a loving relationship?
- How do we understand what matters for us and what matters to us on the consumerist conception of the good life?
- What sort of evidence can be brought against the consumerist conception of the good life?
- How can rational deliberation and self-control help the subjectivist view of the good life?
- What is weakness of will, and what does the possibility of weakness of will tell us about how we can determine what matter most to us?
- What is the good life according to Aristotle?
- Explain the ways in which the good life is passive on the consumerist conception and active on Aristotle’s view.
- Explain instrumental and intrinsic value.
- On Aristotle’s view, once we know what the good life is, how do we lead it?
- How does Aristotle understand virtue?
- What sorts of things can be aids or obstacles to our flourishing?