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- Born
- 1919
- Died
- 2002
- Works
- 23
Top works
- Greek philosophers
- Die Sprache der Moral
- Essays in ethical theory
- Essays in Ethical Theory
- Hare and Critics
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1971-12-21
Discography
- Le Baptême1997
- Je dis aime1999
- Les Âmes de Mogador2003
- Labo -M-2003
- Qui de nous deux2003
- Mister Mystère2009
- Îl2012
- Louis, Matthieu, Joseph & Anna Chedid2015
- La B.O²-M-2015
- Lettre infinie2019
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5 total works indexed
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- Meta-Ethnography
· 1988 · cited 2,528x
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Quotes
- “The rules of moral reasoning are, basically, two, corresponding to the two features of moral judgment...When we are trying, in a concrete case, to decide what we ought to do, what we are looking for...is an action to which we can commit ourselves (prescriptively) but which we are at the same time prepared to accept as exemplifying a principle of action to be prescribed for others in like circumstances (universalizability)...[I]f we cannot universalize the principle, it cannot become an ‘ought’.”
- “...what the principle of utility requires of me is to do for each man affected by my actions what I wish were done for me in the hypothetical circumstances that I were in precisely his situation; and, if my actions affect more than one man...to do what I wish, all in all, to be done for me in the hypothetical circumstances that I occupied all their situations...”
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Key facts
- Born
- Richard Mervyn Hare , ( 1919-03-21 ) 21 March 1919, Backwell , England
- Died
- 29 January 2002 (2002-01-29) (aged 82), Ewelme , England
- Spouse
- Catherine Verney ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1947 )
- Children
- 4, including John E. Hare
- Alma mater
- Balliol College, Oxford
- Academic advisor
- H. J. Paton
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic philosophy
- Institutions
- Balliol College, Oxford Corpus Christi College, Oxford University of Florida
- Notable students
- John Lucas Brian McGuinness Peter Singer Bernard Williams
- Main interests
- Moral philosophy political philosophy
- Notable ideas
- Moral particularism preference utilitarianism two-level utilitarianism universal prescriptivism
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- date of birth
- 1919-03-12
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- 2002-01-29
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Richard Mervyn Hare (21 March 1919 – 29 January 2002), usually cited as R. M. Hare, was a British moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. He subsequently taught for a number of years at the University of Florida. His meta-ethical theories were influential during the second half of the twentieth century.
Hare is best known for his development of prescriptivism as a meta-ethical theory, which he argues is supported by analysis of formal features of moral discourse, and for his defence of preference utilitarianism based on his prescriptivism.