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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J. L. Mackie

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie ebook
Format: djvu
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Page: 242
ISBN: 0140135588, 9780140135589

And I don't necessarily buy a theory quite that specific even though I agree with 90 per cent of what I read in Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Mackie, JL 1977, Ethics : inventing right and wrong, Penguin, Harmondsworth. But why accept that an answer to the . GO Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong Author: J. The 'needs of your own folk' were now the main basis left for ethical life – and that was producing results rather different from our traditional ideas of 'public-spiritedness' and right and wrong. All facts supervene on the physical facts; and you can't logically derive an ought from an “is”. The natural state of humankind, argued Hobbes, is an amoral war of all against all; such a condition was unliveable, so we invented rights and moral values. I do agree that the pragmatic/functionalist approach to morality is the way to go, although one point that I'd want to make about this is that J.L. This Solum post deals with a new paper available on SSRN dealing with Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, which I read during my undergraduate days as a philosophy major at the University. As a teenager, I read Ayer (“Language, Truth and Logic”) and later Mackie ( “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”). See John Leslie Mackie's wonderful "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" for example. Language: English Released: 1991. Edward Feser · Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. Utilitarianism (which I neither represent) is also a coherent moral theory - without any need for the supernatural. Strikingly, the same day's newspapers revealed the British . 15-48) and our inherent desire to wanting to do what is right.