When1: 1965
When2: 1982
Who: John L. Mackie [Mackie, John L.]
What: philosopher
Where: Australia
works\ Causes and Conditions [1965]; Truth, Probability, and Paradox [1973]; Cement of the Universe [1974]; Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong [1977]; Evil and Omnipotence; Hume's Moral Theory [1980]; Miracle of Theism [1982]
Detail: He lived 1917 to 1981.
Ethics
Moral truths pretend to objectivity, but there are no objective moral truths {error theory of value} {error theory of moral values}. Morals are subjective and should serve subjective purposes.
That evil exists, God is only good, and God is omnipotent are logically inconsistent.
Epistemology
Causes are effect conditions. Causes are always event combinations, and no single event can necessitate effect. Cause is a necessary but insufficient part of an unnecessary but sufficient condition {INUS condition}.
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