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Hillary Putnam on Morality | Mario de Caro

Brain in a Vat

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Is the Theory Guarding Your Actions?

How do you form a pluralistic ethics in a way that's not just vague? Patra believes everyone has the same intuitions, but we shouldn't model our ethics on these cases. For example, torturing children, especially for fun, is something nobody ever should consider ethical. We can talk with people that have different ideas and tax the other learned. Perhaps we don't always reach an agreement, but at least we in discussion, this book is called in dialogue.

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