Recognizing Truth Through Selflessness – Harry Gordon Frankfurt

„Recognizing truth requires selflessness. You have to leave yourself out of it so you can find out the way things are in themselves, not the way they look to you or how you feel about them or how you would like them to be.“

Harry Gordon FrankfurtHarry Gordon Frankfurt emphasizes that selflessness is necessary to recognize the true nature of things.
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Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher and professor at Princeton University.

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Harry Gordon Frankfurt was an American philosopher who taught at Princeton University. His research focused on ethics, philosophy of mind, action theory, and 17th-century philosophy. He is regarded as an important thinker in these fields.

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