Ideas from 'Moral Thinking: Its Levels,Method and Point' by Richard M. Hare [1981], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method and Point' by Hare,R.M. [OUP 1982,0-19-824660-9]].

green numbers give full details    |     back to texts     |     expand these ideas

---

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

4125	Hare says I acquire an agglomeration of preferences by role-reversal, leading to utilitarianism [Williams,B]

4126	If we have to want the preferences of the many, we have to abandon our own deeply-held views [Williams,B]

4127	If morality is to be built on identification with the preferences of others, I must agree with their errors [Williams,B]

22483

A judgement is presciptive if we expect it to be acted on

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 8. Contract Strategies

4360	By far the easiest way of seeming upright is to be upright