Hume's Guillotine and the Subjectivity of Value Claims #383

It is commonly asserted that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder' and that 'there's no accounting for taste'. Views like this received their philosophical foundation from David Hume, who famously argued that it was impossible to validly derive an 'ought' claim from an 'is' claim. If Hume is right, then aesthetic and ethical judgments seem to be mere matters of taste, and disagreement beauty or morality means nothing more than "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."

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Hume's Guillotine and the Subjectivity of Value Claims #383 is an episode from Faith and Economics by Gwartney Institute.

This episode is 00:35:53 long.

This episode was published on Mar 2, 2026.

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