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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie ebook
ISBN: 0140135588, 9780140135589
Page: 242
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The explanation that most closely matches my views on this is J. 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. Utilitarianism (which I neither represent) is also a coherent moral theory - without any need for the supernatural. An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. I remember, today, only one of those contributions: “Rule Egoism,” a short note that dovetailed nicely with J.L. See John Leslie Mackie's wonderful "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" for example. €�You're right”–that substantial, two-page spread on an issue of local significance is a thing of beauty in the Sunday paper. Mackie's, laid out in Ethics: Inventing Right and 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. Right Is Right, And Wrong Is Wrong: Rangel And Waters Ethics Woes. So the preferences I laid out in #1 and #2 are just that — preferences. The argument you've given is very close Mackie's argument from queerness, posited in "Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. ATHEIST: Well, we've evolved some moral views, and some tendencies to do right and wrong.