Theo Todman's Book Collection (Book-Paper Abstracts)

Back Cover Blurb

1. This book is a continuation of the enterprise which the author began with The language of Morals and "Hare (R.M.) - Freedom and Reason".
2. In the present work, R. M. Hare has fashioned, out of the logical and linguistic theses of his earlier books, a full-scale hut readily intelligible account of moral argument. By distinguishing two different levels of moral thinking, the author shows how utilitarian reasoning at the critical level, enlisting the impartial sympathy for others' predicaments which we must have if we fully understand them, generates moral principles for use at the intuitive level which square with our common intuitions, e.g. about justice and rights. The reasoning itself is firmly based on the logic of concepts which all who ask moral questions are already using.
3. R. H. Hare is Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida, and was formerly White's Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Oxford.