Hume: Relative Morality
David Hume, the 18th-century Scottish thinker known for his philosophical realism--
Morality is nothing in the abstract nature of things, but is entirely relative to the sentiment or mental taste of each particular being.
--Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding (London: Miller, 1748), 14. (Hume is relying on Francis Hutcheson when he makes the assertion)
One more indication that "postmodernism" is not as revolutionary as we've been taught.
Morality is nothing in the abstract nature of things, but is entirely relative to the sentiment or mental taste of each particular being.
--Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding (London: Miller, 1748), 14. (Hume is relying on Francis Hutcheson when he makes the assertion)
One more indication that "postmodernism" is not as revolutionary as we've been taught.