R. M. Hare Quotes on Virtue
Richard Mervyn Hare was a British analytic moral philosopher and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. This page collects quotes attributed to R. M. Hare on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
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.”