PHL275H1 Lecture Notes - Expressivism, Moral Nihilism, Relativism
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Mackie is roughly on the same side as hume. Both deny moral objectivity but hume thinks they are just attitudes but mackie thinks they just beliefs that are true but they don t actually exist (like a unicorn) He s like hume in denying that there are objective moral truths; pp. So mackie s view is like expressivism in saying we are expressing attitudes in making moral judgements but says we don t know we re doing that. Therfore, are moral judgements are all false by defect = error theory. Mackie"s main arguments for his position against objectivity of value. = combination between 2 earlier arguments we have seen: the argument from relativity, the argument from queerness. 248-49; this is a version of what i earlier called the argument from the. Scientific world view, about how moorean non-natural properties don t fit into a scientific picture of the world; but mackie s argument is also different; pp.
