Mon premier blog

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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie ebook
Publisher:
ISBN: 0140135588, 9780140135589
Page: 242
Format: djvu

Probably a philosopher like J.L. Hegel, Philosophy of Right loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 347–105, loses to Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by 187–185. Is this similar to what Mackie calls the pathetic fallacy in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong? Not an easy task when what is considered right and wrong is almost, if not always, a matter of perception. Some will seek to demonstrate the existence of an objective, universal morality with . The only thing I can come up with from the top of my head is the first chapter of J.L. It seems we have forgotten that we, human beings, invented this economy. And it's clear from the argument of the first chapter of Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong that Mackie thinks that prescriptivity involves moral facts providing people with categorical reasons for action. Ethics is a form of philosophy which seeks to categorise, codify and champion concepts of right and wrong. The opening line of Mackie's classic Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong advances the bold claim, “There are no objective values,” and it does so immediately under the heading “Moral Skepticism” (1977: 15). Mackie's “Values are Subjective” from his book Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977). Thesis: “There are no objective values.” Question: What does he mean by objective values? Some philosophers have been and are skeptical about the objective status of ethics. 42, … the tendency to read our feelings into their objects. This is demonstrated perfectly by a glance at the current state of our world.