Full Idea
According to Hare's universal prescriptivism, moral statements are closer to imperatives than to avowals of emotion; their purpose is to guide action. But unlike imeperatives they are universalisable.
Gist of Idea
Moral statements are imperatives rather than the avowals of emotion - but universalisable
Source
report of Richard M. Hare (Freedom and Reason [1963]) by Hans-Johann Glock - What is Analytic Philosophy? 2.9
Book Reference
Glock,Han-Johann: 'What is Analytic Philosophy?' [CUP 2008], p.57
A Reaction
Why isn't 'everyone ought to support West Ham' a moral judgement?