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

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong



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Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, 1977. Edward Feser · Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. I do agree that the pragmatic/functionalist approach to morality is the way to go, although one point that I'd want to make about this is that J.L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor That's it for the in text citations. Utilitarianism (which I neither represent) is also a coherent moral theory - without any need for the supernatural. See John Leslie Mackie's wonderful "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" for example. €�If he says that objective moral value is the same as God's attitudes, that's divine command theory. The chapter is on intellectualism vs. €�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. Mackie, author of Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. Domestic students tend to think of business ethics as being primarily about what is “right or wrong” behaviorally.