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John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote ...
Mackie's Arguments for the Moral Error Theory. The Argument from Relativity (often more perspicaciously referred to as “the Argument from Disagreement”) begins with an empirical observation: that there is an enormous amount of variation in moral views, and that moral disagreements are often characterized by an unusual degree of intractability.
Learn about JL Mackie, who argued that there are no objective values and that ethics must be invented, not discovered. Explore his books, views, and sources on meta-ethics, religion, and language.
May 23, 2022 · Mackie claims that the existence of evil is a contradiction of God being omnipotent and good. He examines and rejects various solutions to the problem of evil, and concludes that the belief in a good God is irrational.
John Leslie Mackie (1917–1981) was an Australian-born philosopher who made contributions to logic, ethics, metaphysics, and theology. He is known for his arguments against the existence of moral facts, objective evil, and God, and his analysis of causation and conditionals.
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May 30, 2022 · An insight into moral skepticism of the 20th century. The author argues that our every-day moral codes are an 'error theory' based on the presumption of moral facts which, he persuasively argues, don't exist. His refutation of such facts is based on their metaphysical 'queerness' and the observation of cultural relativity.
John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981), philosopher, was born on 25 August 1917 at Killara, Sydney, younger child of Scottish-born Alexander Mackie, principal of Teachers’ College, Sydney, and his wife Annie Burnett, née Duncan, a Sydney-born schoolteacher.
