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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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For relevant contemporary work, see Mackie's works, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong or Hume's Moral Theory. 15-48) and our inherent desire to wanting to do what is right. Aside from Russell, he has influenced me more than any other philosopher. His book in ethics "Inventing Right and Wrong" is also fantastic, but less directly about atheism. Mackie, JL 1977, Ethics : inventing right and wrong, Penguin, Harmondsworth. (It is noteworthy that Hitler had as democratically legitimate a right to rule as any other elected leader). Thus we have every reason not to believe in them. But why accept that an answer to the . 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. Schumpeter however concluded Mackie, J L, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Harmondsworth, 1977. Some philosophers have been and are skeptical about the objective status of ethics. Probably a philosopher like J.L. The years 1977-81 gave us three hard blows against ethics. As morality goes, they would have to be very weird facts. Perhaps that's inevitable, but the more we do it the less chance there is of reaching a consensus. 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. An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. Written by a number of people, not just philosophers: Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, even T.