This volume contains a collection of R.M.Hare's essays which fill in the theoretical background of his thought. Each essay is self-contained, but together they give a connected picture of his views on such questions as the objectivity and rationality of moral thinking, the issue between the ethical realists and their opponents, the place in our moral thought of appeals to common convictions and how to tell whether a feature of a situation is morally relevant.
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Why do applied ethics?; some confusions about subjectivity; what makes choices rational?; principles; supervenience; ontology in ethics; how to decide moral questions rationally; a "reductio ad absurdum" of descriptivism; the promising game; Rawls' Theory of Justice; the structure of ethics and morals; relevance; ethical theory and utilitarianism; utilitarianism and the vicarious affects; some reasoning about preferences.
