Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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Mackie, JL 1977, Ethics : inventing right and wrong, Penguin, Harmondsworth. Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Mackie, author of Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. And, I have learned things about ethics from Donagan's The Theory of Morality and J. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Pelican). Logical positivism led to greater emphasis on meta-ethics, which seeks more to understand why and how what is good or right is thus considered as good as against bad and as right as against wrong. 15-48) and our inherent desire to wanting to do what is right. 'Fine-tuning, Multiple Universes, and the “This Universe” Objection', with Michael J. Thrush, in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84, 67-83. So, there are actually books written by philosophers that I think are very much worth reading. But why accept that an answer to the . Logical positivists' preference of meta- ethics is from a cognitive perspective which gives preference to .. Written by a number of people, not just philosophers: Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, even T.