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Recovering R.M. Hare

How Moral Philosophy Lost Its Way — And How to Fix It

What morality requires, recovered from R. M. Hare. Ten chapters, from the retreat from reason to philosophy’s last chance.

Contents

1. PrefacePreface
2. IntroductionIntroduction
3. Chapter 1The Retreat from Reason
4. Chapter 2The Archangel Is the Test
5. Chapter 3Philippa Foot and the Parochialism of Nature
6. Chapter 4Bernard Williams and the Authority of Identity
7. Chapter 5Alasdair MacIntyre and the Boundaries of Tradition
8. Chapter 6Jonathan Dancy and the Limits of Particularism
9. Chapter 7The Information Problem and the Representation of Standpoints
10. Chapter 8The Moral Logic of Universal Prescriptivism
11. Chapter 9Nonbiological Minds, the Archangel, and the Valley of Coherence
12. Chapter 10Philosophy’s Last Chance
13. AfterwordWhat Happens Next Isn’t Up to Us Alone