I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

Death in the Afternoon

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Moral theory

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Source

Death in the Afternoon

Language

English

Time

1932 1930s 20th century

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Novelist Writer

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United States

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Hemingway, Ernest. Death in the Afternoon. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932, ch. 1.

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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.

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Moral relativism Moral theory Morality
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Alfred North Whitehead
Language
English
Time
1941 1940s 20th century
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Citation

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.