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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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This is along the lines of Mackie's argument from queerness. LEE · The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless. To anyone interested in getting a fuller exposition, I highly recommend his “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”. The first chapter is sufficient for getting the argument. The explanation that most closely matches my views on this is J. The Essayification of Everything. Probably a philosopher like J.L. Strikingly, the same day's newspapers revealed the British . Stone Links: Robot Right and Wrong. 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. 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. (See Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, pp. So the preferences I laid out in #1 and #2 are just that — preferences. 38-42.) The argument has two sides, one metaphysical the other epistemological. Why has the form invented by Montaigne — searching, sampling, notoriously noncommittal — become a talisman of our times? 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. Mackie's, laid out in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Some philosophers have been and are skeptical about the objective status of ethics. In this week's links: robot ethics, provocative philosophers, courtroom aesthetics, and more.