People
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
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker defines morality through what a majority likes or dislikes. On this view, standards change with the people, place, and time. The line challenges the idea that popular approval is the same as a lasting moral truth.
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