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Out of the many sorts of inquiry for which the term ‘ethics’ has at one time or another been used, three groups of questions may be selected as the most important to distinguish from one another:

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© 1972 R. M. Hare

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Hare, R.M. (1972). Ethics. In: Essays on the Moral Concepts. New Studies in Practical Philosophy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01278-7_4

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