Feb 25, 2022
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.