Search results
Richard Mervyn Hare FBA (21 March 1919 – 29 January 2002), usually cited as R. M. Hare, was a British moral philosopher who held the post of White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1966 until 1983.
Jun 4, 2014 · Richard Mervyn Hare was born at Backwell Down, outside Bristol, on 21 March 1919. He was to be known professionally as R.M. Hare, and personally as Dick Hare. His father, Charles Francis Aubone Hare, was director of a firm, John Hare & Co., making paint and floor-cloth; his mother was Louise Kathleen Simonds, of a brewing and banking family.
Richard M. Hare (1919 - 2002) is usually acknowledged to be one of the major moral thinkers of the 20th century. After being a Japanese prisoner of war for most of World War II, he completed his education at Oxford, later joining the faculty and becoming a professor.
People also ask
Who is Richard Mervyn Hare?
Who was Richard Hare?
How did Professor Hare die?
What was Professor Hare's theory?
Feb 17, 2002 · R.M. Hare, a moral philosopher who wrestled ethical questions out of the murky realm of emotion and into the hard-edged arena of logic, died on Jan. 29 in his home in Ewelme, England. He...
Jan 29, 2002 · Richard Mervyn Hare (March 21, 1919 – January 29, 2002) 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, and then taught for a number of years at the University of Florida.
Richard M. Hare, the White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University from 1966 to 1983, is famous as the inventor of universal prescriptivism. This is a metaethical doctrine, a thesis about what moral words mean.
Richard Mervyn Hare, who died on January 29th, was a prominent English moral philosopher noted for defending universal prescriptivism in ethics.
