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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. IntroductionIntroduction
2. Chapter 1The Retreat from Reason
3. Chapter 2The Archangel Is the Test
4. Chapter 3Philippa Foot and the Sentimentality Trap
5. Chapter 4Bernard Williams and the Cult of Character
6. Chapter 5Alasdair McIntyre — Nostalgia as Ethics
7. Chapter 6John Dancy and the Flight from Structure
8. Chapter 7The Information Problem That Wasn’t
9. Chapter 8The Moral Logic of Universal Prescriptivism
10. Chapter 9AI, Archangels, and the Fulfilling of the Prophecy
11. Chapter 10Philosophy’s Last Chance
12. AfterwordAfterword