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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong



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Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. See Joshua Greene's The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth About Morality and What To Do About It, and J.L. (I highly recommend his 1977 book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong). 42, … the tendency to read our feelings into their objects. Is this similar to what Mackie calls the pathetic fallacy in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong? Thus we have every reason not to believe in them. That suggests that you're advocating an anti-realist stance as well. I'd say you're in good company. 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. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. In his book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, J.