The Reasons of Love by Harry G Frankfurt - Essay Example

The author’s main point is to describe such a feature of human nature, which makes people not obligatory make just rational decisions of how to act in different situations, but to decide according to internal feelings, authority to do so and moral factor, which is quite individual for each person. The connection between the factors that influent the attitude of humans to things is the following: to want something, you should have a good attitude to it, so that making the decision to do something to get what you want you should have a certain moral stance, which is unconscious. (Frankfurt, 2004) The author gives different arguments to explain his main idea, he analyzes the fact that every certain answer he gives on the problem causes more questions than answers. For example, why do people do something? Because they want it, but which factors make them want it? The question opens an even wider field of interpretation of human nature than the first question posed. To understand why do people think this or that way we can’t make general conclusions because the research of every certain situation will lead to inconsistencies, because human nature doesn’t pertain to rational arguments only, it is relative.