Ethics of David Hume

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" Hume is a subjectivist concerning morality to the degree that he sees morality as deriving from personal experience and not from a priori assumptions, and since every person's experience is somewhat different, though tending toward the same moral lessons, Hume must be seen as a subjectivist in that respect. At the same time, Hume railed against the idea of human freedom, for we are all buffeted about and have our actions determined by physical laws which govern the universe. This would seem to mitigate against a subjectivist interpretation.
Hume considers the nature of and origin of morality and asks whether it is derived from reason or sentiment, by which he means feelings rather than rational thought. This relates to Hume's conception of knowledge and thus his idea of the meaning and value of reason. Hume follows Locke by determining that all the.."

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