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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie ebook
ISBN: 0140135588, 9780140135589
Format: djvu
Page: 242
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So the preferences I laid out in #1 and #2 are just that — preferences. Also his book “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong” is good but probably only the first few chapters are worth reading (it's metaethics not ethics… that's my excuse). His book on ethics is appropriately titled Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. "After Ayer, After Empiricism." Partisan Review 51 (2). The explanation that most closely matches my views on this is J. I agree with Dostoevski, Sartre and Mackie. Utilitarianism (which I neither represent) is also a coherent moral theory - without any need for the supernatural. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. It really depends who the list is for. Edward Feser · Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. See John Leslie Mackie's wonderful "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" for example. Written by a number of people, not just philosophers: Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, even T. If there is no God, there are no objective moral values. The direct method of distinguishing between a right action and a wrong action is act-utilitarianism, by which an action is deemed right as long as it maximizes welfare. Mackie's, laid out in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong.