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It is in imaginative literature — including those parts of it which pass for history and biography — that what may be good in human life is concretely represented.

J. L. Mackie

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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. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism.

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