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    Challenges→Cultivating feelings that make people disregard happiness in particular cases is justified because doing so produces more happiness in the world overall.

    G.E. Moore's 'open question argument' establishes that no purely descriptive or causal fact about happiness-production can by itself constitute a moral justification without an independent normative premise.

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    Causal fact(in understanding what makes something envy)
    Something that is true because one thing directly caused another thing to happen, rather than for some other reason.
    Descriptive fact(as opposed to normative claims)
    A statement that simply describes how things actually are in the world, without saying anything about how they should be or what the rules are.
    G.E. Moore(as the creator of the Open Question Argument)
    A highly influential British philosopher (1873-1958) who developed important ideas about how we know things and what words actually mean.
    Moral justification(as used in ethics)
    A good ethical reason that explains why an action is right or acceptable.
    normative premise(skeptical arguments against the justificatory power of intuitions)

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    A premise in a skeptical argument that states a necessary condition on the justification of belief.
    open question argument(Metaethics; critique of moral naturalism)
    G.E. Moore's argument that for any natural property N, the question 'Is N good?' remains genuinely open, purporting to show that goodness cannot be identical to any natural property.

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