Rethinking Hare'S Analysis Of Moral Thinking
Author ORCID Identifier
Steven Daskal:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7847-0059
Publication Title
Utilitas
ISSN
9538208
E-ISSN
17416183
Document Type
Article
Abstract
R. M. Hare has an ambitious project of arguing from a limited set of premises about the nature of moral thought and language all the way to substantive utilitarian conclusions. I reconstruct Hare's argument, identify an important problem for Hare, and then develop and endorse a restricted Hare-like argument. This argument is less ambitious than Hare's, and does not substantiate utilitarian conclusions on its own, but I demonstrate that it nonetheless imposes important constraints on moral judgements and I indicate how it can play a role in a larger argument for utilitarian conclusions.
First Page
181
Last Page
198
Publication Date
10-22-2019
DOI
10.1017/S0953820819000384
Recommended Citation
Daskal, Steven, "Rethinking Hare'S Analysis Of Moral Thinking" (2019). NIU Bibliography. 196.
https://huskiecommons.lib.niu.edu/niubib/196
Department
Department of Philosophy
