Sorting Out Ethics [Paperback]

...the book is extremely effective: written with customary clarity and vigour, and succinctly summarizing and cross-referencing the argument of the earlier works, it should replace them on reading lists as a student's first exposure to Hare's views. --Times Literary Supplement

Sorting Out Ethicsis a characteristically lucid and lively survey of rival ethical theories by one of the most influential moral philosophers of the century. It also constitutes a definitive summary of Hare's own fundamental ethical position.

PART I. THE ENTERPRISE OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY
1. Philosophy of Language in Ethics [previously published]
2. Defence of the Enterprise
PART II: A TAXONOMY OF ETHICAL THEORIES (The Axel H??gerstr??m Lectures)
3. Taxonomy
4. Naturalism
5. Intuitionism
6. Emotivism
7. Rationalism
PART III. KANT
8. Could Kant Have Been a Utilitarian? [previously published]
Complete Bibliography of the Writings of R. M. Hare
Bibliography of Other Writings. Index.

...the book is warmly to be recommended. Students, especially, will appreciate its central section, in which developments in moral philosophy during the present century are traced with exceptional clarity. --International Philosophical Quarterly

...the book is extremely effective: written with customary clarity and vigour, and succinctly summarizing and cross-referencing the argument of the earlier works, it should replace them on reading lists as a student's first exposure to Hare's views. --Times Literary Supplement

...the book is warmly to be recommended. Students, especially, will appreciate its central section, in which developments in moral philosophy during the present century are traced with exceptional clarity. --International Philosophical Quarterly

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