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    It is not the case that On teleological views, the evaluative is prior to the deontic.

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    • 1.Ross's prima facie duties are self-evident moral facts that hold independently of any evaluation of consequences or states of affairs.
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    • 2.If deontic facts can be self-evident without grounding in evaluative facts, then the explanatory relationship asserted by teleological views is not necessary.
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    • 3.The existence of a coherent non-teleological moral framework with genuine explanatory force defeats the claim that evaluative priority is a general feature of moral theory.
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    • 1.On Kantian deontology, deontic facts (duties derived from the categorical imperative) are prior to and constrain what counts as valuable.
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    • 2.If deontic constraints determine which outcomes may be pursued, then the deontic is explanatorily prior to the evaluative, inverting the teleological order.
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    • 1.Teleological theories explain deontic facts by appeal to evaluative facts.
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    • 2.That which explains is prior to that which it explains.
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