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John E. Hare

John Edmund Hare (born 26 July 1949) is a British classicist, philosopher, and ethicist, and the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. He held the Noah Porter chair from 2003 until his retirement in 2023, with concurrent appointments in Yale's departments of Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. The son of the British utilitarian philosopher R. M. Hare, John Hare has worked on an ethical theory that integrates Kantian deontological ethics with divine command theory. Unlike his father's secular philosophy, Hare's work is specifically Christian and grounds moral obligation in God's authority. He is best known for his concept of the "moral gap"—the distance between the ethical demand placed on human beings and their natural capacity to meet it—and for his trilogy of works on ethics and Trinitarian theology: The Moral Gap (1996), God's Command (2015), and Unity and the Holy Spirit (2023). The author of over sixty articles in scholarly journals, Hare has worked on ancient philosophy, medieval Franciscan philosophy, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, contemporary ethical theory, the theory of the atonement, medical ethics, international relations, and aesthetics. He is a published composer of liturgical compositions for choir and organ.

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John Edmund Hare (born 26 July 1949) is a British classicist, philosopher, and ethicist, and the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. He held the Noah Porter chair from 2003 until his retirement in 2023, with concurrent appointments in Yale's departments of Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies. The son of the British utilitarian philosopher R. M. Hare, John Hare has worked on an ethical theory that integrates Kantian deontological ethics with divine command theory. Unlike his father's secular philosophy, Hare's work is specifically Christian and grounds moral obligation in God's authority. He is best known for his concept of the "moral gap"—the distance between the ethical demand placed on human beings and their natural capacity to meet it—and for his trilogy of works on ethics and Trinitarian theology: The Moral Gap (1996), God's Command (2015), and Unity and the Holy Spirit (2023). The author of over sixty articles in scholarly journals, Hare has worked on ancient philosophy, medieval Franciscan philosophy, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, contemporary ethical theory, the theory of the atonement, medical ethics, international relations, and aesthetics. He is a published composer of liturgical compositions for choir and organ.

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  1. date of birth: 1949-07-26 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. date of birth: 1949-07-26 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  3. publication date: 1985 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of birth is "1949-07-26". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the date of birth is "1949-07-26". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. The record states that the publication date is "1985". What evidence would count against this claim?
  5. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  6. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362078174

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