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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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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. If there is no God, there are no objective moral values. 42, … the tendency to read our feelings into their objects. Strikingly, the same day's newspapers revealed the British . His book on ethics is appropriately titled Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. See John Leslie Mackie's wonderful "Ethics - Inventing Right and Wrong" for example. 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. Is this similar to what Mackie calls the pathetic fallacy in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong? 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. I agree with Dostoevski, Sartre and Mackie. Utilitarianism (which I neither represent) is also a coherent moral theory - without any need for the supernatural. 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). For instance, little bits of both realist Singer's "The Expanding Circle" and anti-realist Mackie's "Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong" seem to indicate agreement with this theory.