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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong

J. L. Mackie’s 1977 defense of moral error theory, including the argument that objective values would be too strange to exist.

Author: J. L. Mackie
Publisher: Penguin
Tradition: Moral philosophy

Citation

J. L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, Penguin, 1977.

Where this source is used

Objective morality and GodThis argument does not claim you need God to be good. It asks what makes moral obligation binding and human worth real, and argues that God is the best explanation.