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Birth Name:

J. L. Mackie

Male

Birth Date:

Sat, Aug 25, 1917

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Age:

107

Zodiac Sign:

Virgo

Astrology Data:

Sun

1°

Vir

17'

About J. L. Mackie

John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language, and is perhaps best known for his views on metaethics, especially his defence of moral scepticism as well as his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote six books. His most widely known, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (1977), opens by boldly stating, "There are no objective values." It goes on to argue that because of this ethics must be invented rather than discovered. His posthumously published The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God (1982) has been called a tour de force in contemporary analytic philosophy. The atheist philosopher Kai Nielsen 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 Time magazine described him as "perhaps the ablest of today's atheistic philosophers."

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for J. L. Mackie: Sun 1 Virgo, Moon 22 Scorpio, Mercury 28 Virgo, Venus 3 Libra, Mars 18 Cancer, Jupiter 9 Gemini, Saturn 7 Leo, Uranus 21 Aquarius, Neptune 5 Leo, Pluto 5 Cancer, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Sun Semi Sextile Venus, Sun Semi Square Mars, Sun Sextile Pluto, Venus Sextile Neptune, Venus Square Pluto, Mars Quincunx Uranus, Jupiter Sextile Saturn, Jupiter Sextile Neptune, Saturn Conjunct Neptune, Uranus Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Neptune Semi Sextile Pluto

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