John Mackie Quotes on Virtue
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 virtue, 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.”