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Mar 12, 1919 Somerset, England, United Kingdom Died on 29 Jan 2002 (aged 82)
British moral philosopher
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About R. M. Hare
- Richard Mervyn Hare (; 21 March 1919 – 29 January 2002), usually cited as R.
- M.
- Hare, 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, the analysis of formal features of moral discourse justifying preference utilitarianism. Some of Hare's students, such as Brian McGuinness, John Lucas and Bernard Williams, went on to become well-known philosophers.
- Peter Singer, known for his involvement with the animal liberation movement (who studied Hare's work as an honours student at the University of Melbourne and came to know Hare personally whilst he was an Oxford B.Phil, graduate student), has explicitly adopted some elements of Hare's thought, though not his doctrine of universal prescriptivism.
