Ethics : inventing right and wrong / J.L. Mackie.

  • Mackie, J. L. (John Leslie)
Date:
1977
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1977.

Physical description

249 pages ; 18 cm.

Contents

Part I. The status of ethics -- The subjectivity of values -- The meaning of 'God' -- Obligations and Reasons -- Universalism -- Part II. The content of ethics -- The object of morality -- Utilitarianism -- Consequentialism and Deontology -- Elements of a practical morality -- Part III. Frontiers of ethics -- Determinism, responsibility, and choice -- Religion, law, and politics.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN

  • 0140219579
  • 9780140219579