R. M. Hare 1919 – 2002
R. M. Hare (1919 – 2002) was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy.
Richard Mervyn Hare was a British analytic moral philosopher and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. After captivity in the Far East during the Second World War, he returned to develop a distinctive metaethical position known as universal prescriptivism, according to which moral judgements are universalizable imperatives. His The Language of Morals, Freedom and Reason, and Moral Thinking shaped post-war analytic ethics by combining a careful logical analysis of moral language with a substantive moral theory of two-level utilitarianism. He taught generations of moral philosophers, including Peter Singer.
Key facts
- Nationality
- British
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Analytic Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to R. M. Hare:
“Moral judgements are universalizable prescriptions.”
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Attributed to R. M. Hare:
“To call something good is to commend it.”
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Attributed to R. M. Hare:
“Universalizability is the formal property of moral judgements.”
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Attributed to R. M. Hare:
“Moral education is the cultivation of universalizable preferences.”
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Attributed to R. M. Hare:
“We must be ready to prescribe to ourselves what we prescribe to others.”
R. M. Hare by topic
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- R. M. Hare was born in 1919 and died in 2002.
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- R. M. Hare was a British philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- R. M. Hare was associated with Analytic Philosophy.
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- Richard Mervyn Hare was a British analytic moral philosopher and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford.
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