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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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GO Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong Author: J. Mackie's focal point in his “Ethics”, with a skeptical view, is the query of the objectivity of moral values and the status of ethics in human life. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. Inventing Right and Wrong, Penguin 1990. An introduction to Ethics., OUP 1992. Language: English Released: 1991. For Mackie, right and wrong are invented on the basis of self-interest and/or cooperative gains. That suggests that you're advocating an anti-realist stance as well. J L Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977) thinks belief in 'objective rights and wrongs' cannot be sustained. Ethics.Inventing.Right.and.Wrong.pdf. (I highly recommend his 1977 book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong). Mackie used this notion as forming the basis of his “morality in the narrow sense” in his excellent “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong”. I'd say you're in good company. The claim that either moral knowledge is impossible or moral value does not exist, defined respectively, is more popularly associated with J.L. "After Ayer, After Empiricism." Partisan Review 51 (2). Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. See Joshua Greene's The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth About Morality and What To Do About It, and J.L. A., Textbook of Christian Ethics, T & T Clark 1989.