R. M. (Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville) Hare
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R. M. (Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville) Hare,
e druk, 1993
9780198240716
Essays in Ethical Theory
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Paperback, 272 blz.
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Engels
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1993
ISBN13: 9780198240716
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In this volume, R. M. Hare has collected a number of essays which fill in the theoretical background of his thought and which together give an overall picture of his views on a variety of questions.
Each essay is self-contained, and topics covered include the objectivity and rationality of moral thinking, the issue between the ethical realists and their opponents, the place in our moral thought of appeals to common convictions, and how to tell whether a feature of a situation is morally relevant. His central theme is the paradox that, if moral judgements were just statements of fact, relativism would be inescapable. We can treat moral thinking as a rational activity only because moral judgements are more than this.
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Why do applied ethics?; Some confusions about subjectivity; What makes choices rational?; Principles; Supervenience; Ontology in ethics; How to decide moral questions rationally; A Reductio ad Absurdum of descriptivism; The promising game; Rawls' Theory of Justice; The structure of ethics and morals; Relevance; Ethical theory and utilitarianism; Utilitarianism and the vicarious affects; Some reasoning about preferences.