Moral realist traditions from Plato through Ross hold that certain first-order properties—such as being-an-instance-of-suffering—have their normative valence necessarily, not contingently.
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W.D. Ross, a 20th-century philosopher who argued that we have multiple moral duties (like honesty and keeping promises) that sometimes conflict, and we must figure out which is strongest in each situation.
contingently(in modal logic)
In a way that could be true or false; depending on specific circumstances rather than being required by logic or nature.
moral realism(Used interchangeably here with moral objectivism)
The view that moral facts are objective — that is, that moral claims can be true or false independently of what any individual or culture believes