Saturday, 29 October 2011

J L Mackie




...I am nowhere mainly concerned to refute any individual writer. I believe that all those to whom I have referred, even those with whom I disagree most strongly, have contributed significantly to our understanding of ethics: where I have quoted their actual words, it is because they have presented views or arguments more clearly or more forcefully than I could put them myself.
 from the preface to J L  Mackie's Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977, p. 3):

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