Single Idea 22331

[catalogued under 22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism]

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?