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.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

David Hume
Selfish, Voice, Ethics
David Hume (1768). “An enquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions. An enquiry concerning the principles of morals. The natural history of religion”, p.296

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

David Hume
Pregnancy, Ethics, Morality

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

David Hume
Practice, May, Ethics
David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp (2006). “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals: A Critical Edition”, p.20, Oxford University Press

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

David Hume
Past, Events, Ethics
DAVID HUME (1854). “THE PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS OF DAVID HUME.”, p.160

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