Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong by J. L. Mackie

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie ebook
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ISBN: 0140135588, 9780140135589
Page: 242
Format: djvu

Domestic students tend to think of business ethics as being primarily about what is “right or wrong” behaviorally. The direct method of distinguishing between a right action and a wrong action is act-utilitarianism, by which an action is deemed right as long as it maximizes welfare. Secondly, there are no moral facts (a position called moral nihilism or an error theory of morality, defended in his book, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong). Mackie's, laid out in Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. The explanation that most closely matches my views on this is J. [3] See, of course, in particular Mackie, J.L. Are aware of them, it would have to be by some special faculty or moral perception or intuition, utterly different from our ordinary ways of knowing anything else" (J.L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, 1977, p.38). So the preferences I laid out in #1 and #2 are just that — preferences. Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. (1977), Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Harmondsworth: Penguin.