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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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Metaethics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy ]Likewise, in his influential book Ethics : Inventing Right and Wrong, J.L. 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). All facts supervene on the physical facts; and you can't logically derive an ought from an “is”. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. It can be found in shortened versions in more than a few intro to ethics texts. (See Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, pp. 38-42.) The argument has two sides, one metaphysical the other epistemological. Mackie's widely reprinted argument against the objectivity of moral values (from his Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong) might work. As a teenager, I read Ayer (“Language, Truth and Logic”) and later Mackie ( “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”). Edward Feser · Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. 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.