Mackie argued that objective value (both moral and aesthetic) does not exist. His argument stems from the idea that if these values did exist they would be so strange because they would supersede on other events and would be unlike any other property we know of.
This doesn't seem to be a conclusive argument. Plato contested that beauty was transcendental and 'visited' the world through different events and objects. This idealist view holds that there are universals and this is what we experience when we find beauty in different events and objects. It seems to me that this would be at least a consistent theory for objective values, which Mackie's argument does not discount.
(Just some quick notes in response to Mackie's Error Theory, Plato's Transcendentalism, and Roger Scruton)
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