A World Without Values Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Joyce, Richard (Editor), Kirchin, Simon (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
• Series: Philosophical Studies Series ; 114
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Ethics.

For centuries, certain moral philosophers have maintained that morality is an illusion, comparable to talking of ghosts or unicorns. These moral skeptics claim that the world simply doesn’t contain the sort of properties (such as moral badness, moral obligation, etc.) necessary to render moral state...