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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there… — Alfred North Whitehead

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead
1941
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Moral relativismMoral theoryMorality
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1941
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Alfred North Whitehead
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Whitehead, Alfred North. Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead, edited by Lucien Price. David. R. Godine, 2008, ch. 22. Originally from dialogue with Lucien Price, 30 Aug. 1941.

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