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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong J. L. Mackie
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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. See Joshua Greene's The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Truth About Morality and What To Do About It, and J.L. Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong. 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. 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. Strikingly, the same day's newspapers revealed the British . The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. So what were the most borrowed books in the Casimir Lewy Library during 2010/11? For Mackie, right and wrong are invented on the basis of self-interest and/or cooperative gains. There was quite a bit of change this year. (originally wrong because it violates some more general principle; if it had not violated the principle, then it would not be wrong (my example). An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. From Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, London: Penguin Books, 1991.