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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 ...
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Mackie argued that people's attitudes and feelings when considering their behavior and its effects lead them to assume, falsely, the existence of objective features of right or wrong, good or bad, in human situations, which correspond to, and validate, those attitudes and feelings.
A World without Values is a substantially expanded version of a 2007 special issue of Ethical Theory and Moral Practice published to mark the thirtieth anniversary of Mackie’s book. It contains some of the best contemporary evaluations to date both of Mackie’s error theory and of its wider philosophical significance.
John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was a philosopher who made significant contributions to the fields of ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion.
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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 criticisms of moral realism and subjectivism.
