HARE'S PRINCIPLE OF UNIVERSALIZABILITY OF SUPERVENIENCE

• Authors: Kuzniar A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author reconstructs and critcally examines Richard Hare's 'Principles of of Universalizability of Supervenience' and contrasts it with another principle defended by the author of the 'Language of Morals' - the principle of supervenience. It is argued that Hare's views regarding the former underwent a very significant but unjustified change in 'Moral Thinking' as compared with their exposition in his earilier 'Freedom and Reason'. The change considered in a transition from regarding preference utilitarinism as one of many possible normative systems that can be accepted in conformity with universalizability of moral judgments, to treating it as the only normative theory bearing this characteristic. It is also shown that Hare's point of departure chosen in 'Freedom and Reason' allows him to reach merely the principle of universalizability that is equivalent to weak supervenience (according to J. Kim's classification) admitting of singular terms, and that only the latter principle can by recongized as analytically true in moral language.

Keywords

EN

HARE RICHARD; MORAL LANGUAGE; SUPERVENIENCE; UNIVERSALIZABILITY

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydział Filozofii
• Journal: Edukacja Filozoficzna
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 42
• Pages: 167-184
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kuzniar A.

• A. Kuzniar, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Instytut Filozofii, ul.Krakowskie Przedmiescie 3, 00-047 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07PLAAAA01914087