道德语言

简介

Hare’s first book appeared in 1952, when emotivism – the view that moral language mainly expresses and influences feelings – dominated analytic ethics. Hare agreed that moral judgements are not statements of fact but held that they are not mere persuasion either. Like imperatives, they guide action, and they stand in logical relations to one another. Using examples such as “a good strawberry” or “a good motor car”, he distinguishes the descriptive from the evaluative meaning of “good”: the criteria vary, but the commendation stays the same. He argues that moral words are also universalisable, a point he developed fully in Freedom and Reason (1963).

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批评了

• 语言、真理与逻辑1936 · A. J. 艾耶尔

被承接于

• 实践伦理学1979 · 彼得·辛格

被批评于

• 善的至高无上1970 · 艾丽丝·默多克
• 自然的善2001 · 菲利帕·富特