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

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

Mackie classifies himself as both a moral skeptic and a moral subjectivist, but his error theory commits him to a form of moral antirealism. Hegel, Philosophy of Right loses to Mill, Utilitarianism by 347–105, loses to Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy by 187–185. The claim that either moral knowledge is impossible or moral value does not exist, defined respectively, is more popularly associated with J.L. This Solum post deals with a new paper available on SSRN dealing with Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, which I read during my undergraduate days as a philosophy major at the University. Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Mackie's focal point in his “Ethics”, with a skeptical view, is the query of the objectivity of moral values and the status of ethics in human life. For Mackie, right and wrong are invented on the basis of self-interest and/or cooperative gains. ² I think the confusion stems from J. Instead, Schopenhauer offers a kind of 'error theory', similar in some respects to error theories in ethics (e.g. Language: English Released: 1991. Mackie's defence of subjectivism in his book 'Ethics Inventing Right and Wrong'). GO Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong Author: J.