Objective Prescriptions

And Other Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 1989
ISBN: 978-0-19-823853-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

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has brought together in this volume the best of his uncollected essays in moral philosophy, several of them previously unpublished or revised for this collection.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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hare, R. M.

Hare, Richard M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.