Subjectivisma) In Epistemology
Subjectivisma) In Epistemology
The restriction of knowledge to the knowing subject and its sensory, affective ind volitional states and to such external realities as may be inferred from the mind’s subjective states. See Solipsism, Ego-centric Predicament.
b) In AxiologyThe doctrine that moral and aesthetic values represent the subjective feelings and reactions of individual minds and have no status independent of such reactions. Ethical subjectivism finds typical expression in Westermarck’s doctrine that moral judgments have reference to our emotions of approval and disapproval. See The Origin and Development of Moral Ideas. Vol. 1, Ch. l. — L.W.