From an article in Swarthmore College's campus paper:
Natural law’s antagonist is secular humanism, whose founder and namesake David Hume famously wrote: “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”
Considering how big a hero David Hume is in liberal American philosophy departments, you'd think they'd be giving students more accurate information about him. You'd also think they'd do a better job teaching secular humanism, since it is the philosophical strain nearest and dearest to their hearts.
Humanism is a lot of things, but its name is not derived from "Hume".
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