Categorical desires are not merely contingent preferences but constitutive of the evaluative standpoint from which any life is judged worthwhile (Frankfurt, 'Freedom of the Will').

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Categorical desires(Williams's key concept about what makes life worth living): Desires that give your life direction and meaning—things you care about for their own sake, not just as a way to pass time (like wanting to learn, create, or help others).
Evaluative standpoint(as used in ethics and philosophy of value): The perspective or framework you use to judge what's good, bad, worth doing, or worth living for.
Harry Frankfurt(as a modern philosopher referenced in debates about God's power): A 20th-century American philosopher who wrote about the nature of God's omnipotence and whether an all-powerful being can be limited by its own nature.
constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be): Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.

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