Hey, this is the Parsley Exam in Life, episode 327 Part 2, been discussing Harry Frankfurt's on bullshit.

We're going to move pretty quickly here to another essay,

the importance of what we care about, just as one example of what is the alternative.

If he's at warning us against bullshit then what is this moral core? I mean he did

write a later essay called On Truth, right, at the point that on

bullshit got really famous. I listened to the audio book of that last night and it

is not necessary. Like I've been so impressed with everything else I heard from Frankfurt, but it's just like, why is truth important to us?

Well, because you have to get around in the world and you have to know true things.

Because we're dealing with other people and you have to be

sincere you have to be honest with each other to have a sense of intimacy

except in the you know in a play zone or something where everybody knows that

you're lying just you know but it's not it's not

actually deceptive it was a very just obvious things like that I mean I guess there's

something that we could come up with in terms of Nietzsche's on truth and lie

you could read it as a response to that that Nietzsche says there are

limits to what we would want out of truth. You know, there are some maybe

fundamental things about our being. Maybe we wouldn't want to know. And Frankfurt directly says against all that stuff.

So anyway, this importance of what we care about

is one of the essays, where another one of his

is called taking ourselves seriously.

And he's just known as a

philosopher who cares about moral psychology and you know is written about free will and

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