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John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was a philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of
ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. A professor of philosophy at the universities of Sydney,
Otago, New Zealand, and York, he was elected a fellow of the University of Oxford in 1967 and to the
British Academy in 1974.
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This title presents an insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. 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. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of
cultural relativity.

Sales Rank: #446077 in Books

Published on: 1991-05-17
Released on: 1991-05-17
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: 7.74" h x .62" w x 5.12" l, 1.10 pounds
Binding: Paperback
256 pages

About the Author

John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was a philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of
ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. A professor of philosophy at the universities of Sydney,
Otago, New Zealand, and York, he was elected a fellow of the University of Oxford in 1967 and to the
British Academy in 1974.

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58 of 59 people found the following review helpful.

A Classic of Contemporary Moral Philosophy
By ctdreyer
The first chapter of Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong is the locus classicus for error theories in
contemporary meta-ethics. There he argues that ordinary moral discourse and thought involve an assumption
that there are what he calls "objective values," and that this assumption is false. Consequently, ordinary
moral thought and language are infected by an error that precludes any ordinary moral claims and thoughts
from being true.
Mackie first argues for a cognitivist interpretation of moral language. In other words, he argues that ordinary
moral claims purport to describe facts about the world. In particular, ordinary moral language and thought
purport to describe facts about objective moral values. What are objective moral values? They have two
defining characteristics: (i) mind-independent existence (think of how chairs, trees, people, and electrons
exist), and (ii) "intrinsic and categorical prescriptivity": that is, they are such that the mere apprehension of
them will motivate a person to act in a certain way. The former characteristic is the source of their
objectivity; the latter is the source of their normativity.
But, he claims, we have good reason to think that no such things exist. Mackie's fundamental worry about
these putative objective values is that these things are especially "queer," that they are unlike any other
things we have good reason to think exist. As I understand Mackie, underlying his worries about the
queerness of these putative entities is his perception of a tension in their nature. He appears to believe that
the objectivity of these putative entities is in tension with their intrinsic and categorical action-guidingness.
That is, it is unclear to Mackie how something that exists as a mind-independent part of reality could have
the sort of influence on human behavior that these objective values are supposed to have. It is unclear how
something could be both objective and normative. The things that scientists study and that we encounter in
the everyday world simply don't have this sort of categorical action-guidingness built into them. So, given
the naturalistic conception of the world that Mackie favors, we have good a posteriori reasons to doubt the
existence of objective moral values.
But, if Mackie is correct about the nature of ordinary moral thought and language, this commits us to
regarding ordinary moral thought and language as involving a very fundamental sort of error, an error of
presupposing that objective moral values exist. Mackie then completes his error theory by providing an
explanation of our tendency to make this error, to mistakenly suppose that ordinary moral thought and
language involve our successfully coming to know about the sorts of things he claims don't exist.
Mackie's book doesn't end here, however. Indeed, this is only the first chapter, and Mackie goes on to cover
a wide range of territory in normative ethics and meta-ethics, along with a few issues in metaphysics (the
existence of God and freedom of the will) that have some bearing on moral issues. In fact, despite his worries
about the objectivity of morality, Mackie goes on to defend a substitute for morality, one that looks quite a
bit like a broadly consequentialist moral theory, and he even weighs in on several controversial moral issues
that are still with us. In short, in a little over two hundred pages of exceptionally clear prose, Mackie covers
just about everything of interest in moral philosophy.
This book is, of course, essential reading for anyone interested in meta-ethics. Understanding some of the
material and its importance may require some background knowledge, but enough of the book is more
generally accessible that it also constitutes a good wide-ranging introduction to issues in both meta-ethics
and normative ethics for a person with some background in philosophy (and perhaps for the general reader).
Furthermore, the book, while not a work of history, is sufficiently informed about the history of the issues it
discusses to provide the reader with an entry into study of the history of the subject.
If you're especially interested in Mackie's meta-ethical views, you should attempt to track down a copy of
Morality and Objectivity (Ted Honderich, ed.), as it includes interesting and important reactions to Mackie's
views by some major names (John McDowell, Simon Blackburn, R. M. Hare, Bernard Williams, et al.) in
moral philosophy.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful.

A Classic of 20th Century Ethics Indeed...
By IR
It might be read as an introduction to Ethics, but it isn't one. It is rather one of the most important works in
20th century ethics.

Mackie's book was revolutionary since being the first one to combine anti-realism (no objectively
prescriptive values in the world) with cognitivism (the meaning of ethical statements can be true or false).
Most of the previous anti-realists were anti-realists mostly implicitly, only because of being non-cognitivsts.
Mackie has a different view which in my opinion is much more closer to the truth. The book also contains
his error theory (people have a disposition to see their value judgments as objective). While the reviewer
cdtreyer as the mainstream tradition have concentrated on Mackie's error theory I think it is much less
important than the denial of the objective values and the justification of the role of morality in quasi-
contractual terms.

Mackie's views on positive morality are justified by quasi-contractual (he discusses Plato's Protagoras,
Hobbes and Hume) means and would combine very well with evolutionary perspectives. The discussion on
the content of normative views is just a brief sketch, but this isn't really what this book is about anyway.
Anyone who claims that the contents of the first part of the book undermine the contents of the second
should read chapter 5 again and again and again. That there are no objective values in the world does not
mean that there can't be right or wrong - it simply must be (or rather already has largely been) invented and
constructed.

If you are interested in ethics you simply need to read this small, but important book which, while not being
an introduction is still quite simple and very elegantly written. Besides the main content you will also get to
read a great discussion on the meaning of the good (in debate with the classical Geach-Hare discussion found
in Philippa Foot's "Theories of Ethics"), discussion on the is-ought problem and its flawed Searlean solution
(also found in Foots collection), a chapter on univerzalisability of moral judgments (contra Hare) and on the
frontiers of ethics: voluntary actions, determinism, law, politics, religion.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful.

Father of Error Theory
By Jaime Andrews
This book is the father of all error theory books. He originates some of the central critiques of moral thought
and discourse that guys like Richard Garner rely on (see also: Beyond Morality). They think there is
something bizarre about morality's commitment to categorical reasons (things that you ought or ought not to
do regardless of what your desires happen to be). They think moral properties are queer because he says that
don't fit into a naturalistic worldview and because they are thought to supervene on non-moral properties (i.e.
the moral properties "fix" the moral facts... so the non-moral fact of kicking a puppy is always accompanied
by the property of wrongness).

As you may notice, the theory presented in this book does not agree with me. Error theory argues that
morality is systemically erroneous... what do we do with moral thought and discourse then? If Mackie thinks
supervenient relationships are flawed, exactly how do ordinary natural facts determine the moral facts? He
argues for conservationism (rather than eliminativism) because he recognizes the instrinsic vlue of morality,
although I don't see that working. I agree more with the ideas of David Boonin, David Enoch, and Michael
Huemer.

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John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was a philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of
ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. A professor of philosophy at the universities of Sydney,
Otago, New Zealand, and York, he was elected a fellow of the University of Oxford in 1967 and to the
British Academy in 1974.

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