J. L. Mackie Philosopher

John Leslie Mackie (/ˈmæki/; 25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher, originally from Sydney. He made significant contributions to the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, and is perhaps best known for his views on meta-ethics, especially his defence of moral scepticism.He authored six books. His most widely known, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977), opens by boldly stating that "There are no objective values." It goes on to argue that because of this ethics must be invented, rather than discovered.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)Mackie J. L. (pen name)
Birth dateAugust 25, 1917
Birth place
Sydney , Australia
Date of deathDecember 12, 1981
Place of death
England , Oxford
Era
20th-century philosophy
Main interest
Ethics
Metaphysics
Philosophy of language
Moral nihilism

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Argument from queerness
philosophical school
Analytic philosophy
Australian realism

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External resources

  1. http://books.publishing.monash.edu/apps/bookworm/view/A+Companion+to+Philosophy+in+Australia+and+New+Zealand/56/xhtml/chapter12.html#chapter12sec01