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R. M. Hare's Achievements in Moral Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2009

Peter Singer
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In his Axel Hägerström Lectures, given in Sweden in 1991, Dick Hare referred to Hägerström as a pioneer in ethics who had made the most important breakthrough that there had been in ethics during the twentieth century. Although Hägerström's development of a nondescriptivist approach to ethics certainly was pioneering philosophical work, when the history of twentieth century ethics comes to be written, I believe that it is Hare's own work that will be seen as having made the most important contribution.

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In Memoriam R. M. Hare
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Utilitas , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , November 2002 , pp. 309 - 317
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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References

1 Full bibliographical details of this and other writings by Hare referred to in this article can be found in the ‘Complete Bibliography of Philosophical Writings of R. M. Hare’, available at http://web.balliol.ox.ac.uk/official/history/hare/fullbiog.asp

2 ‘The Triviality of the Debate over “Is-Ought” and the Definition of “Moral”’, American Philosophical Quarterly, x (1973)Google Scholar.

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