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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor That's it for the in text citations. Schumpeter however concluded Mackie, J L, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Harmondsworth, 1977. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. For instance, little bits of both realist Singer's "The Expanding Circle" and anti-realist Mackie's "Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong" seem to indicate agreement with this theory. This Solum post deals with a new paper available on SSRN dealing with Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, which I read during my undergraduate days as a philosophy major at the University. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. The direct method of distinguishing between a right action and a wrong action is act-utilitarianism, by which an action is deemed right as long as it maximizes welfare. And I don't necessarily buy a theory quite that specific even though I agree with 90 per cent of what I read in Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. (It is noteworthy that Hitler had as democratically legitimate a right to rule as any other elected leader). In his book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, J. Secondly, there are no moral facts (a position called moral nihilism or an error theory of morality, defended in his book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong). P E N G U I N BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 27 Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ, England Penguin Books USA Inc. For Mackie, right and wrong are invented on the basis of self-interest and/or cooperative gains. The chapter is on intellectualism vs. 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.