Sorting Out Ethics

by R. M. Hare

Overview

R. M. Hare writes in his Preface: 'I offer this taxonomy of ethical theories to all those who are lost in the moral maze, including many of my philosophical colleagues. They are lost because, like most of those who hold forth on moral questions in the media, they have no map of the maze. This is has been my aim to provide.' Sorting Out Ethics is a characteristically lucid and lively survey of rival ethical theories by one of the most influential moral philosophers of the century. It also constitutes a definitive summary of Hare's own fundamental ethical position.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191519192
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/13/1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Lexile:	1230L (what's this?)
File size:	273 KB

About the Author

R. M. Hare, FBA, was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1983, and Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, Gainesville, thereafter.

Table of Contents

Part I.	The Enterprise of Moral Philosophy
1.	Philosophy of Language in Ethics	1
2.	Defence of the Enterprise	29
Part II.	The Axel Hagerstrom Lectures: A Taxonomy of Ethical Theories
3.	Taxonomy	43
4.	Naturalism	63
5.	Intuitionism	82
6.	Emotivism	103
7.	Rationalism	126
Part III.	Kant
8.	Could Kant have been a Utilitarian?	147
	References and Bibliography	167
	Index	187

Editorial Reviews

"...the book is warmly to be recommended. Students, especially, will appreciate its central section, in which developments in moral philosophy during the present century are traced with exceptional clarity."—International Philosophical Quarterly

"...the book is extremely effective: written with customary clarity and vigour, and succinctly summarizing and cross-referencing the argument of the earlier works, it should replace them on reading lists as a student's first exposure to Hare's views."—Times Literary Supplement

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