1. Harry Frankfurt and the Concept of Will
... the second order"' (Frankfurt in booklet pg. 16). Second-order desires are a concern about the first-order desires; these are desires for a desire. For example, one might have a first-order desire to smoke marijuana and a second order-desire to desire not to smoke marijuana. These values that one holds could or could not be naturally correct, but they are what reflects what one values ... volition or his will. Because an action from a specific desire can achieve that specific desire and one has the will or a second-order volition, the problem of choosing which desire should be fulfilled...
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