Like emotivism, which it grew naturally out of in the 1950s, a form of speech act theory which analyzes value judgments and especially moral judgments, this time in terms of prescriptions.
When I tell you that lying is wrong I am telling you not to lie, though I am also committing myself not to lie, and to issue the same prescription (or at least issue none that conflicts with it) to anyone else; see also universalizability.
Prescriptivism contrasts with descriptivism, and shares many of the features of, and objections to, emotivism.
Source:
R M Hare, The Language of Morals (1952)
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- 2.1 Describing Prescriptivism: Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English
- 2.2 The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism
- 2.3 Prescriptivism: Grammar Shoulds and Shouldn’ts
- 2.4 Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History
- 2.5 The Role of Prescriptivism in American Linguistics 1820–1970 (Studies in the History of the Language Sciences)
- 2.6 Perspectives on Prescriptivism (Linguistic Insights)
- 2.7 It is me vs. It is I. Case Study on the effects of prescriptivism
- 2.8 The Subjunctive in the Age of Prescriptivism: English and German Developments During the Eighteenth Century (Palgrave Studies in Language History and Language Change)
- 2.9 Mightier than the Sword: An Introduction to the Philosophical Quests to Discover the Nature of the Cosmos and How Best to Live
- 2.10 The Scientific Consensus and Recent British Philosophy - Convergences of British Schools of Psycho-Analysis, Piaget's Analysis, The Gestalt School and Ethology, and Ethics of British Idealism vs Logical Realixm and Prescriptivism. Popular Prakashan. 1980.
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