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Single Idea 22484

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

Full Idea

Hare has suggested that a fairly tight form of utilitarianism can be obtained from universalised prescriptivism.

Gist of Idea

Universalised prescriptivism could be seen as implying utilitarianism

Source

report of Richard M. Hare (Freedom and Reason [1963]) by Philippa Foot - Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake? p.191

Book Reference

Foot,Philippa: 'Moral Dilemmas' [OUP 2002], p.191


A Reaction

All the benefits of Bentham, Kant and Hume, in one neat package! Since I take all three of them to be wrong about ethics, that counts against this idea.