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being in the face of evil and suffering, as such a being could have given us both free will and moral perfection, thus resulting in us choosing the good in every situation. In 1955 he published "Evil and Omnipotence", which summarized his view that belief in the existence of evil and an all-powerful,
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I am nowhere mainly concerned to refute any individual writer. I believe that all those to whom I have referred, even those with whom I disagree most strongly, have contributed significantly to our understanding of ethics: where I have quoted their actual words, it is because they have presented
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Mackie is said to have been capable of expressing total disagreement in such a genial way that the person being addressed might mistake his comment for a compliment. This personal style is exemplified by the following words from the preface to
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of philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1959 to 1963. In 1963, he moved to the United Kingdom, becoming the inaugural holder of the chair of philosophy in the
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described it as "one of the most, probably the most, distinguished articulation of an atheistic point of view given in the twentieth century." In 1980,
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called the book "a lucid discussion of moral theory which, although aimed at the general reader, has attracted a good deal of professional attention."
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as intrinsically normative entities on fundamental grounds. He was unsure what kinds of thing they would be if they existed.
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are particularly significant. He argued that the idea of human free will is no defence for those who wish to believe in an
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The Argument from Queerness also suggests that the only way to know of such entities would be through an
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as part of its annual Philosophical Lectures series. In 1974, he became a fellow of the British Academy.
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praising the book and discussing how its ideas might be applied to moral philosophy. The philosopher
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or another faculty different from how we know everything else. He conjoined moral scepticism with
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For a more complete list of works see "The publications of J. L. Mackie" compiled by Joan Mackie.
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Mackie, J. L. (1978). "The Law of the Jungle: Moral Alternatives and Principles of Evolution".
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from 2004 until her death in 2022. Mackie's son David is also a philosopher and graduated from
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magazine described him as "perhaps the ablest of today's atheistic philosophers".
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views or arguments more clearly or more forcefully than I could put them myself.
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as a Christmas present, in 1978 Mackie wrote an article in the journal
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that it is a miracle that anyone assents to the Christian religion."
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The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God
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Mackie married Joan Meredith in 1947. One of their three children,
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Does God exist? : the debate between theists & atheists
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responded in 1979 with "Gene-Juggling", an article arguing that
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Concerning religion, he was well known for vigorously defending
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Brown, Stuart C.; Collinson, Diane; Wilkinson, Robert (2002).
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in contemporary analytic philosophy. The atheist philosopher
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An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
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Corrupting the Youth: A History of Philosophy in Australia
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Biographical dictionary of twentieth-century philosophers
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all-knowing and all-good god is "positively irrational".
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A companion to philosophy in Australia & New Zealand
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Professor Mackie and the KalĀm cosmological argument
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Morality and Objectivity: A Tribute to J. L. Mackie
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