Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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ATHEIST: Well, we've evolved some moral views, and some tendencies to do right and wrong. Similarly, I think that Donagan (The Theory of Morality) and Mackie (Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong) make crucial points in ethical theory, although these points are too rarely grasped by other philosophers. 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. €You're right”–that substantial, two-page spread on an issue of local significance is a thing of beauty in the Sunday paper. Ethics : Inventing Right and Wrong. It really depends who the list is for. Mackie classifies himself as both a moral skeptic and a moral subjectivist, but his error theory commits him to a form of moral antirealism. But why accept that an answer to the . As morality goes, they would have to be very weird facts. For relevant contemporary work, see Mackie's works, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong or Hume's Moral Theory. ² I think the confusion stems from J. The argument you've given is very close Mackie's argument from queerness, posited in "Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. 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). Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. 15-48) and our inherent desire to wanting to do what is right. Thus we have every reason not to believe in them. Future Imperfect: Technology and Freedom in an Uncertain World. 42, … the tendency to read our feelings into their objects. Mackie, JL 1977, Ethics : inventing right and wrong, Penguin, Harmondsworth. Is this similar to what Mackie calls the pathetic fallacy in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong?