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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie ebook
Page: 242
ISBN: 0140135588, 9780140135589
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Ethics.Inventing.Right.and.Wrong.pdf. Strikingly, the same day's newspapers revealed the British . 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. An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. Logical positivists' preference of meta- ethics is from a cognitive perspective which gives preference to .. This is along the lines of Mackie's argument from queerness. Perhaps that's inevitable, but the more we do it the less chance there is of reaching a consensus. Utilitarianism (which I neither represent) is also a coherent moral theory - without any need for the supernatural. The first chapter is sufficient for getting the argument. See John Leslie Mackie's wonderful "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" for example. 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. To anyone interested in getting a fuller exposition, I highly recommend his “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”. Some philosophers have been and are skeptical about the objective status of ethics. Domestic students tend to think of business ethics as being primarily about what is “right or wrong” behaviorally. Logical positivism led to greater emphasis on meta-ethics, which seeks more to understand why and how what is good or right is thus considered as good as against bad and as right as against wrong. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. Secondly, there are no moral facts (a position called moral nihilism or an error theory of morality, defended in his book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong). Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. 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. Probably a philosopher like J.L.