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Objective Prescriptions
And Other Essays

R. M. Hare

Price: £65.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-823853-9
Publication date: 18 March 1999
240 pages, 216x136 mm
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  • The best uncollected essays of a great moral philosopher
  • Ranges broadly over theoretical and practical ethics
  • Lucidly written, for non-specialists as well as professional philosophers
R. M. Hare has brought together in this volume the best of his uncollected essays in moral philosophy, several of them previously unpublished or revised for this collection. They span the whole range of his ethical interests, from the most abstract to the most down-to-earth. The reader will find here the bases of his ethical theory in Kantian prescriptivism, utilitarianism, and the logic of imperatives, and will see that theory applied to issues of bioethics, medical ethics, business ethics, loyalty and obedience, and racism. The essays display the author's characteristic clarity and vigour; some of them are polemical, targeting particular opponents and rival theories. The volume provides a compelling demonstration of Hare's commitment to bringing together the theoretical and the practical in ethics.

Readership: Scholars and students of moral philosophy and applied ethics.

Contents
Preface
1. Objective Prescriptions
2. Prescriptivism
3. Some Subatomic Particles of Logic
4. Imperatives, Prescriptions, and their Logic
5. Philosophy and Conflict
6. A New Kind of Ethical Naturalism?
7. Professor Foot on Subjectivism
8. Internalism and Externalism in Ethics
9. Weakness of the Will
10. Foundationalism and Coherentism in Ethics
11. Preferences of Possible People
12. Methods of Bioethics: Some Defective Proposals
13. A Utilitarian Approach to Ethics
14. Is Medical Ethics Lost?
15. Loyalty and Obedience
16. Why Racism is an Evil
17. The Ethics of Medical Involvement in Torture
18. One Philosopher's Approach to Business and Professional Ethics
19. What Are Cities For? The Ethics of Urban Planning
Bibliography; Index

Authors, editors, and contributors


R. M. Hare, Formerly White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University and Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville


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