R. M. Hare was the leading British moral philosopher of the last half of the twentieth century. His overarching aim, which he relentlessly pursued, was to demonstrate how rational argumentation about morality is possible. He achieved this aim by using...

Hare, Richard M.(1919–2002) Richard M. Hare, the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University from 1966 to 1983, is famous as the inventor of universal prescriptivism. This is a metaethical doctrine, a thesis about what...

Richard Mervyn Hare (March 21, 1919 – January 29, 2002) was an English moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983 and then taught for a number of years at the...

R. M. HARE was one of the most influential moral philosophers of the post-war era. His first book, The Language of Morals, did much to set the agenda for the subject in the English-speaking world for at least a generation after its publication in...

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. vii + 229 pp. Cloth, $65.00--R. M. Hare's last book is a collection of his essays (two previously unpublished) from the 1980s and 1990s. There is a unity and structure to this collection that is not entirely captured in...