erse. Certain appetites and aversions are innate, meaning people are born with these characteristics. Other appetites and aversions develop with experience (129). For Hobbes, then, the basis for morality is found in both innate characteristics and experience, with both filtered through reason and through the interaction of human beings in society.
David Hume uses a different rationale. Hume is a subjectivist concerning morality to the degree that he sees morality as deriving from personal experience and not from a priori assumptions, and since every person's experience is somewhat different, though tending toward the same moral lessons, Hume must be seen as a subjectivist in that respect. Hume also applies the experimental method to moral issues and begins with the view that the mind can know nothing but its perceptions. What we call factual knowledge comes entirely from information provided by the senses, and reason is applied to ascertain cause-and-effect relationships through the senses as well (164).
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