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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 .
J. L. Mackie: Language: English: Subject: Philosophy: Genre: ... Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong is a 1977 work of ethics by J. L. Mackie known for its espousal of ...
Alvin Plantinga's free-will defense is a logical argument developed by the American analytic philosopher Alvin Plantinga and published in its final version in his 1977 book God, Freedom, and Evil. [1] Plantinga's argument is a defense against the logical problem of evil as formulated by the philosopher J. L. Mackie beginning in 1955.
J. L. Mackie (1917–1981), Australian-born philosopher, best known for his views on meta-ethics John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie (1909–1994), British Labour Member of Parliament 1959–1974 John Mackie (Scottish Unionist politician) (1898–1958), Scottish Unionist Member of Parliament for Galloway 1931–1958
J. L. Mackie argues that there are no objective ethical values, by arguing that they would be queer (strange): If there were objective values, then they would be entities or qualities or relations of a very strange sort, utterly different from anything else in the universe.
For example, J. L. Mackie gave the following three propositions: God is omnipotent; God is omnibenevolent; Evil exists; Mackie argued that these propositions were inconsistent, and thus, that at least one of these propositions must be false. Either: God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, and evil does not exist.
The Kalam cosmological argument has received criticism from philosophers such as J. L. Mackie, Graham Oppy, Adolf Grunbaum, Michael Martin, Quentin Smith, Wes Morriston and Alex Malpass as well as physicists Sean M. Carroll, Lawrence Krauss and Victor Stenger. [21]
Some defenders of moral skepticism include Pyrrho, Aenesidemus, Sextus Empiricus, David Hume, J. L. Mackie (1977), Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Joyce (2001), Joshua Greene, Richard Garner, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2006b), and the philosopher James Flynn.