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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie ebook
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Page: 242
ISBN: 0140135588, 9780140135589

Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Part 1. I do agree that the pragmatic/functionalist approach to morality is the way to go, although one point that I'd want to make about this is that J.L. And, I have learned things about ethics from Donagan's The Theory of Morality and J. So, there are actually books written by philosophers that I think are very much worth reading. Likewise, in his influential book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, J.L. Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. Mackie's focal point in his “Ethics”, with a skeptical view, is the query of the objectivity of moral values and the status of ethics in human life. I would I would urge you to obtain some reading material on this topic bef0re arguing in this way, e.g. Goodness knows I have been proved wrong about much in recent years. Mackie's “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”. The claim that either moral knowledge is impossible or moral value does not exist, defined respectively, is more popularly associated with J.L. €You're right”–that substantial, two-page spread on an issue of local significance is a thing of beauty in the Sunday paper. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. For Mackie, right and wrong are invented on the basis of self-interest and/or cooperative gains. Intro Mackie represents the position in meta-ethics known a moral skepticism.