Tag: Harry Frankfurt
Addendum to previous post on Harry Frankfurt’s On Bullshit:
John Mayer’s song “Daughters” is a perfect example of bullshit, as Frankfurt defines it. Here is the chorus, which I sometimes hear in the vicinity of the frozen food section:
Fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, … Read More
“Why is there so much bullshit?” asks Princeton philosophy professor Harry G. Frankfurt. He doesn’t ask plaintively, but rather in the formal manner of a rigorous philosophical inquiry. He defines bullshit, more or less, not as lying, but as talking about something without knowing about it and without caring whether you know. You could be … Read More