Figs in Winter
Feb 25, 2022

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Alexander, metaphysics concerns ethics only if one is an ethical realist, and even then only marginally (just like Platonism concerns a mathematician who believes that mathematical objects are “real,” meaning mind-independent).

As far as I’m concerned, ethics is a type of practical reasoning springing from natural prosocial instinct that we have as social animals. Some may call this a metaphysical explanation, I call it a scientific one.

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Figs in Winter
Figs in Winter

Written by Figs in Winter

by Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. Exploring and practicing Stoicism & other philosophies of life.

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