“[Harry] Frankfurt generates concern for the topic of love by asking, how should we live our lives? Frankfurt does not mean this to be a moral question. Morality provides, he writes, ‘at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live’. Moral ideals are not overriding. Rather we should live our lives by understanding ‘what it is that we . . . really care about,’ and ideally by being decisive and confident about what we really care about . Love, in particular, is an especially important form of caring. Love, Frankfurt claims, ‘is the creator both of inherent or terminal value and of importance’.”
From a review of Harry Frankfurt’s The Reasons of Love. (via politicaltheory.info)