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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. From the Babylonian Hymn to Samos, from the Laws of I think that the issue here is to think of man's moral depravity as something that affects our knowledge of right and wrong to the same extent as it affects our ability to choose right over wrong. Ethics is the branch of philosophy that examines the question of what actions are morally right or wrong and why. Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Part 1. Is this similar to what Mackie calls the pathetic fallacy in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong? Ethics: Inventing right and wrong. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (New York, 1977). JL Mackie argues in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong that there are no objective values because of metaphysical queerness and cultural relativity. If a man will go into a library and spend a few days with the Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics he will soon discover the massive unanimity of the practical reason in man. 42, … the tendency to read our feelings into their objects. Emotion: Current issues and future directions. Intro Mackie represents the position in meta-ethics known a moral skepticism. ATHEIST: Well, we've evolved some moral views, and some tendencies to do right and wrong. The argument you've given is very close Mackie's argument from queerness, posited in "Ethics: Inventing 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).