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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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Gaut (eds.), Ethics and Practical Reason (Oxford: Clarendon Press). 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. Written by a number of people, not just philosophers: Robert Wright's The Moral Animal, Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, even T. Strikingly, the same day's newspapers revealed the British . Also his book “Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong” is good but probably only the first few chapters are worth reading (it's metaethics not ethics… that's my excuse). (1982), Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (Oxford: Blackwell). Mackie famously put forward his “argument from queerness” against the objectivity of moral values. Mackie's argument from queerness - In his book *Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong*, J. It really depends who the list is for. (1977), Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. 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.