Sorting Out Ethics

by R.M. Hare

"...the book is extremely effective: written with customary clarity and vigour, and succinctly summarizing and cross-referencing the argument of the earlier works, it should replace them on reading lists as a student's first exposure to Hare's views."-- Times Literary Supplement

Sorting Out Ethics is a characteristically lucid and lively survey of rival ethical theories by one of the most influential moral philosophers of the century. It also constitutes a definitive summary of Hare's own fundamental ethical position.

Genres: Philosophy

202 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 1998

Reviews

[Jonathan Norton · Rating 3 out of 5]

From Hare's final years, this is a series of lectures he gave, plus 1 essay on the relation of Kant to utilitarianism. A good summary of his mature views on meta-ethics.

[Donald Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

A philosopher talking in a very philosophical way.

[Robert Heckner · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the best treatments of meta-ethics that I have read; rigorous and clear.