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Not explicitly. He does in various places talk about why alternative considerations of abstract 'rightness' - some sort of objective morality or something - are absurd. He does give some details on his reductionist moral realism about the place but I don't recall where.
Incidentally I haven't seen Eliezer talk about formal or final causes about anything, ever. (And they don't seem to be especially useful concepts to me.)
Aren't "formal cause" and "final cause" just synonyms for "shape" and "purpose", respectively?
Basically, but Aristotle applied naive philosophical realism to them, and Will might have additional connotations in mind.
Sweet phrase, thanks. Maybe there should be a suite of these? I've noticed naive physical realism and naive philosophical (especially metaphysical) realism.