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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong



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Utilitarianism (which I neither represent) is also a coherent moral theory - without any need for the supernatural. As a teenager, I read Ayer (“Language, Truth and Logic”) and later Mackie ( “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”). (See Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, pp. But why accept that an answer to the . Mackie, JL 1977, Ethics : inventing right and wrong, Penguin, Harmondsworth. 38-42.) The argument has two sides, one metaphysical the other epistemological. 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. Related videos from youtube on smashits.com. See John Leslie Mackie's wonderful "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" for example. 15-48) and our inherent desire to wanting to do what is right. Http://theatheistaltar.blogspot.com PDF of book (click the free user button and you should be able to download it): http://rs34.rapidshare.com/files/14109152. All facts supervene on the physical facts; and you can't logically derive an ought from an “is”. I remember, today, only one of those contributions: “Rule Egoism,” a short note that dovetailed nicely with J.L.

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