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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong



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Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, 1977, p.38). Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. 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. 15-48) and our inherent desire to wanting to do what is right. Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press, 1983. Are aware of them, it would have to be by some special faculty or moral perception or intuition, utterly different from our ordinary ways of knowing anything else" (J.L. Thus we have every reason not to believe in them. €�If he says that objective moral value is the same as God's attitudes, that's divine command theory. Utilitarianism (which I neither represent) is also a coherent moral theory - without any need for the supernatural. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, 1977. Edward Feser · Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. As morality goes, they would have to be very weird facts. Leibniz, Discours de Metaphysique. Perhaps that's inevitable, but the more we do it the less chance there is of reaching a consensus. Complete Writings and Letters: Philosophical Writings, vol. The only thing I can come up with from the top of my head is the first chapter of J.L. But why accept that an answer to the . See John Leslie Mackie's wonderful "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" for example. Mackie, JL 1977, Ethics : inventing right and wrong, Penguin, Harmondsworth. For relevant contemporary work, see Mackie's works, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong or Hume's Moral Theory.