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Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong

by J. L. Mackie

  • FINISHED
  • Finished August 2017
  • First published 1977

philosophy ethics moral philosophy metaethics

Mackie argues that there are no objective moral facts, so morality must be made by people.   He then asks what ethics can be once that is accepted and discusses utilitarianism and rights.