Thanks for this intriguing post. Leaving aside the detailed treatments of metaontology, parity, and infinite universes, both the essay and Hare’s book demonstrate how directly metaphysics bears on ordinary moral life. My reservation concerns the “Great Yes.” That later goods depend causally on past evils does not make those evils worthy of affirmation. Providence, if the word retains meaning, does not justify suffering by absorbing it into a fortunate outcome. It defeats evil while restoring those whom evil has wounded.
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Thanks for this intriguing post. Leaving aside the detailed treatments of metaontology, parity, and infinite universes, both the essay and Hare’s book demonstrate how directly metaphysics bears on ordinary moral life. My reservation concerns the “Great Yes.” That later goods depend causally on past evils does not make those evils worthy of affirmation. Providence, if the word retains meaning, does not justify suffering by absorbing it into a fortunate outcome. It defeats evil while restoring those whom evil has wounded.
Fascinating review of Caspar Hare work on perspectival realism. Engaging with radical solipsism and subjective indices pushes philosophical scrutiny to its absolute limits. I examined the problem of subjective experience and philosophical zombies here: https://gzambrano.substack.com/p/chatgpts-and-philosophical-zombies-a-reflection-on-consciousness-and-artificial-intelligence