While we feel we know that all our moral values are relative to something, we do not know to what they are relative.
We may be able to indicate the general class of circumstances which have made morals what they are, but we do not know the particular conditions to which the values we hold are due, or what our values would be if those circumstances had been different.
...our present values exist only as the elements of a particular cultural tradition and are significant only for some more or less long phase of evolution—whether this phase includes some of our pre-human ancestors or is confined to certain periods of human civilization. We have no more ground to ascribe to them eternal existence than to human race itself. There is thus one possible sense in which we may legitimately regard human values/morals as relative and speak of the probability of their further evolution.
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We may be able to indicate the general class of circumstances which have made morals what they are, but we do not know the particular conditions to which the values we hold are due, or what our values would be if those circumstances had been different.
...our present values exist only as the elements of a particular cultural tradition and are significant only for some more or less long phase of evolution—whether this phase includes some of our pre-human ancestors or is confined to certain periods of human civilization. We have no more ground to ascribe to them eternal existence than to human race itself. There is thus one possible sense in which we may legitimately regard human values/morals as relative and speak of the probability of their further evolution.
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Sources: Hayek, µB-12Õ, The Constitution of Liberty, pp. 35-6.
Hayek, µB-13Õ, Studies in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, p. 38.
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