Hare argued that moral judgments such as “Stealing is wrong” are in fact universal prescriptions (“No stealing anywhere by anyone!”).
and because they are universal, Hare argued, they forbid making exceptions. That in turn requires moral judgments to give each person’s well being, including our own, equal weight.
And when we give each person’s well being equal weight, we are acting to produce the best overall outcome. Thus, in his view, the CI is “simply utilitarianism put into other words.
Although on the surface moral judgments can look as if they describe a moral world, they are, as “prescriptions”, not “descriptions”.
The common error of previous ethical theories, including sentimentalism, egoism and rationalism, is that they failed to recognize that morality presupposes that we have autonomy of the will
So all those 'moral' urgings and sound bites from current US politicians are just so much frothing
(from the mouth).
and because they are universal, Hare argued, they forbid making exceptions. That in turn requires moral judgments to give each person’s well being, including our own, equal weight.
And when we give each person’s well being equal weight, we are acting to produce the best overall outcome. Thus, in his view, the CI is “simply utilitarianism put into other words.
Although on the surface moral judgments can look as if they describe a moral world, they are, as “prescriptions”, not “descriptions”.
The common error of previous ethical theories, including sentimentalism, egoism and rationalism, is that they failed to recognize that morality presupposes that we have autonomy of the will
So all those 'moral' urgings and sound bites from current US politicians are just so much frothing
(from the mouth).
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