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R. M. Hare

1919 - 2002

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Richard Mervyn Hare (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. He subsequently taught for a number of years at the University of Florida. His meta-ethical theories were influential during the second half of the twentieth century. Hare is best known for his development of prescriptivism as a meta-ethical theory, which he argues is supported by analysis of formal features of moral discourse, and for his defence of preference utilitarianism based on his prescriptivism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. R. M. Hare is the 1,031st most popular philosopher (up from 1,042nd in 2019), the 3,079th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,854th in 2019) and the 70th most popular British Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, R. M. Hare ranks 1,031 out of 1,267. Before him are Ivan Aksakov, Arulenus Rusticus, Michael Oakeshott, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Joachim Camerarius, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. After him are Abdolkarim Soroush, Rémi Brague, Lon L. Fuller, Hubert Dreyfus, Jean François de Saint-Lambert, and Friedrich Paulsen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, R. M. Hare ranks 193. Before him are Howard Keel, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Daniil Granin, Benny Moré, Maria Lassnig, and Eugenia Charles. After him are Anita O'Day, Eileen Heckart, Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Doris Miller, Michèle Arnaud, and Laila Schou Nilsen. Among people deceased in 2002, R. M. Hare ranks 174. Before him are Ray Brown, Stafford Beer, Arthur Owen, Morihiro Saito, Gabrielle Wittkop, and Tinus Osendarp. After him are Sanya Dharmasakti, Frances Ames, Eugene Odum, George Sidney, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, and Alexandru Todea.

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Among people born in United Kingdom, R. M. Hare ranks 3,080 out of 8,785. Before him are Gertrude Jekyll (1843), Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Barbara Bodichon (1827), Ray Davies (1944), Gary Hocking (1937), and Æthelheard of Wessex (750). After him are John McVie (1945), Florence Green (1901), Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869), Antonio Pappano (1959), Quentin Blake (1932), and John Wilkes (1725).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In United Kingdom

Among philosophers born in United Kingdom, R. M. Hare ranks 70. Before him are Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), Thomas Arnold (1795), Richard Swinburne (1934), Anna Kingsford (1846), Samuel Clarke (1675), and Michael Oakeshott (1901). After him are Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678), Damaris Cudworth Masham (1659), Carole Pateman (1940), John Scott Haldane (1860), Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788), and John Hick (1922).

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