John Mackie Quotes on Truth
John Leslie Mackie was an Australian philosopher who spent the greater part of his career at the University of Sydney, the University of York, and University College, Oxford. This page collects quotes attributed to John Mackie on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to John Mackie:
“There are no objective values.”
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Attributed to John Mackie:
“Moral judgments make claims to objectivity, but those claims are false.”
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Attributed to John Mackie:
“If there were objective values, they would be entities of a very strange sort.”
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Attributed to John Mackie:
“Morality is not to be discovered but to be made.”
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Attributed to John Mackie:
“The argument from evil shows that the traditional conception of God is internally inconsistent.”