R. M. Hare Quotes
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. The quotes below are attributed to R. M. Hare, organized by topic.
R. M. Hare on Virtue
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Attributed to R. M. Hare:
“Moral judgements are universalizable prescriptions.”
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“To call something good is to commend it.”
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“Universalizability is the formal property of moral judgements.”
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“Moral education is the cultivation of universalizable preferences.”
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“We must be ready to prescribe to ourselves what we prescribe to others.”