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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong



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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Pelican). €�If he says that objective moral value is the same as God's attitudes, that's divine command theory. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, 1977. Edward Feser · Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. 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. 'Fine-tuning, Multiple Universes, and the “This Universe” Objection', with Michael J. The opening line of Mackie's classic Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong advances the bold claim, “There are no objective values,” and it does so immediately under the heading “Moral Skepticism” (1977: 15). I would I would urge you to obtain some reading material on this topic bef0re arguing in this way, e.g. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. Some philosophers have been and are skeptical about the objective status of ethics. Mackie's “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”. Probably a philosopher like J.L. Thrush, in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84, 67-83. Right Is Right, And Wrong Is Wrong: Rangel And Waters Ethics Woes. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, 1977, p.38). Goodness knows I have been proved wrong about much in recent years.