[lit-ideas] Mackie: Inventing Right, Inventing Wrong
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 09:44:17 EDT
In a message dated 4/1/2011 10:15:23 A.M., donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
Sadly, Mackie died in 1981 so isn't around to retort."
It is unclear to me why "All moral props are false" is, or ought to be, a
moral proposition rather than just a claim pertaining to moral claims.
Even if it were, Mackie would surely not have been so obviously logically
self-defeating in formulating his stance?
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Grice was fascinated by New-Zealand-born philosopher, J. L. Mackie. He
(Grice) dedicated the first Paul Carus lecture (on the conception of value, now
a book) to Mackie, "Inventing right and wrong".
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"While I can see a point in inventing _right_," Geary assesses, "the point
of inventing _wrong_ remains to be demonstrated (by argument)."
Cheers,
JL
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