A METAETHICAL OPTION FOR THEISTS

John Hare has proposed “prescriptive realism” in an attempt to stake out a middle-ground position in the twentieth century Anglo-American debates concerning metaethics between substantive moral realists and antirealist-expressivists. The account is supposed to preserve both the normativity and objec...

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Main Author: Swan, Kyle (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2006
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2006, Volume: 34, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-20
Further subjects:B Moral Realism
B motivational internalism
B Divine Command Theory
B Expressivism
B Metaethics
B John Hare
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Summary:John Hare has proposed “prescriptive realism” in an attempt to stake out a middle-ground position in the twentieth century Anglo-American debates concerning metaethics between substantive moral realists and antirealist-expressivists. The account is supposed to preserve both the normativity and objectivity of moral judgments. Hare defends a version of divine command theory. The proposal succeeds in establishing the middle-ground position Hare intended. However, I argue that prescriptive realism can be strengthened in an interesting way.
ISSN:1467-9795
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9795.2006.00253.x