Most of the commentators on recent moral philosophy say or imply that emotivism has been superseded by prescriptivism.¹ Although one may readily concede that in its fashionable appeal Hare's prescriptivism has displaced Stevenson's emotivism as the foremost challenger to naturalist and objectivist ethics, it may nevertheless be contended that in terms of theoretical adequacy prescriptivism has not superseded emotivism.