Abstract

In eight short chapters, McGinn touches on Ethics, Evil, and Fiction from an analytical point of view. First, he approaches the nature of ethics. Here McGinn confronts the issue of moral psychologism and resists the temptation to reduce morality to something that it is not and to what cannot really account for it. His conclusion is that “goodness is a moral property... a separate type of property”. He cites G. E. Moore’s insight into the simplicity of goodness and defends “a strong objectivist or cognitivist” position of moral truth.