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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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Strikingly, the same day's newspapers revealed the British . Aside from Russell, he has influenced me more than any other philosopher. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Ethics.Inventing.Right.and.Wrong.pdf. I'd say you're in good company. The natural state of humankind, argued Hobbes, is an amoral war of all against all; such a condition was unliveable, so we invented rights and moral values. His book in ethics "Inventing Right and Wrong" is also fantastic, but less directly about atheism. The 'needs of your own folk' were now the main basis left for ethical life – and that was producing results rather different from our traditional ideas of 'public-spiritedness' and right and wrong. That suggests that you're advocating an anti-realist stance as well. 42, … the tendency to read our feelings into their objects. (I highly recommend his 1977 book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong). Is this similar to what Mackie calls the pathetic fallacy in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong? Mackie, author of Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong.