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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong


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Intro Mackie represents the position in meta-ethics known a moral skepticism. Mackie was surely a superior logician, compared to Plantinga. Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Part 1. See Mackie, JL (1977) Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, New York: Penguin. "After Ayer, After Empiricism." Partisan Review 51 (2). Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Nathan Bond says: February 28, 2008 at 10:46 am. Aside from Russell, he has influenced me more than any other philosopher. JL Mackie argues in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong that there are no objective values because of metaphysical queerness and cultural relativity. I highly recommend it and his “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). This paper discussed whether child labour should be justified or banned, it draws on normative ethics theory that classify actions according to whether they are morally right or morally wrong, according to this paper child labour should be discouraged and those who violate the rights of children should be brought to justice and punished, people should realise that children have to . What's all this about senseless divinitatis? His book in ethics "Inventing Right and Wrong" is also fantastic, but less directly about atheism. (1977), Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Harmondsworth: Penguin. Mackie's widely reprinted argument against the objectivity of moral values (from his Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong) might work. It really depends who the list is for. It can be found in shortened versions in more than a few intro to ethics texts. [3] See, of course, in particular Mackie, J.L.

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