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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong



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Logical positivists' preference of meta- ethics is from a cognitive perspective which gives preference to .. Edward Feser · Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. From Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, London: Penguin Books, 1991. JL Mackie argues in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong that there are no objective values because of metaphysical queerness and cultural relativity. Logical positivism led to greater emphasis on meta-ethics, which seeks more to understand why and how what is good or right is thus considered as good as against bad and as right as against wrong. Intro Mackie represents the position in meta-ethics known a moral skepticism. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. €�we need an evolutionary understanding of where a strong sense of right and wrong comes from as an instinct, and a neurobiological account of how our brains function (or malfunction) when they engage in ethical reasoning. Also his book “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong” is good but probably only the first few chapters are worth reading (it's metaethics not ethics… that's my excuse). Complete Writings and Letters: Philosophical Writings, vol. Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Part 1. Leibniz, Discours de Metaphysique. (originally wrong because it violates some more general principle; if it had not violated the principle, then it would not be wrong (my example). Princeton , NJ : Princeton University Press, 1983. It really depends who the list is for.

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