“You should not behave like that!”“How should I behave?”
“You should behave in an acceptable way.”
“But what is the acceptable way?”
“Well there are rules set down for behaviour, there are general rules and principles, aren’t there?”
“But where do those derive from?”
“Well, they go back...to...”
And you endeavour to go back. Yet your justificatory reasoning to bring about change must be finite for it must refer to some rule or principle for which no further reason can be given.
“Well, tell me then....”
But you can’t tell her, there is no further answer to give her, because you have already ex hypothesi (in accordance with or following from the hypothesis you have already stated) said what might be included in any further answer.
Source: Alisdair MacIntrye After Virtue
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