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Hillary Putnam on Morality | Mario de Caro

Brain in a Vat

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Aristotle Ethics - The Pattern

People don't talk about things on which everyone agrees, unless one of the two is a label looming. But when we talk is there are two points of view, and you try to decide which is the best. And this is similar to what happens in morality. Perhaps in asymmetries, this pattern says, there are these principal insights that we cannot find so strongly in ethics. We have to invent our own rules in the niche, particular situation. In this sense, perhaps a pattern is closer to Aristotle, some point of Aristotle ethics that is more particular.

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