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Sorting Out Ethics

By R. M. Hare

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1998
ISBN
0198237278, 9780198237273
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2593507 bytes)
Pages
202\202
Time added
2014-04-24 16:16:21

Description

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. The book's main theme is that objectivity in moral thinking is not to be sought by making moral questions into questions of fact; this leads inevitably to relativism, tying us to particular cultures and languages. Objectivity is to be sought, rather, by emphasizing the universally prescriptive character of moral language, which all cultures can share, and so using it to resolve their moral differences. An objective moral prescription, as Kant saw, is one upon which all rational thinkers can agree.

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