R. M. Hare

Tags: Philosopher.

Richard Mervyn Hare (21 March 1919 in Backwell Somerset – 29 January 2002 in Ewelme Oxfordshire) was an English moral philosopher who held the post of White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983. He subsequently taught for a number of years at the University of Florida. His meta-ethical theories were influential during the second half of the twentieth century.Hare is best known for his development of prescriptivism as a meta-ethical theory.

birth date

1919-03-21

birth place

Backwell, Somerset

death date

2002-01-29

death place

Ewelme, Oxfordshire

era

20th-century philosophy

influenced

Peter Singer, Bernard Williams, Brad Hooker, Thomas Hurka, Hans Sluga, John E. Hare, Raymond Frey

influenced by

A. J. Ayer, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, J. L. Austin, Henry Sidgwick

main interest

Ethics

notableIdea

Universal prescriptivism, Two-level utilitarianism

philosophicalSchool

Analytic philosophy

region

Western philosophy