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    Supports→The second premise of the ergon argument is incompatible with evolutionary biology

    Philippa Foot's naturalistic ethics in 'Natural Goodness' demonstrates that evolutionary organisms have evaluable life-form norms independent of fixed essences.

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    • 1.Organisms exhibit species-typical functions (predation, reproduction) that enable evaluation without invoking Platonic essences or teleology.
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    • 2.Natural selection grounds normativity: traits are evaluable as good/bad relative to survival and flourishing within ecological contexts.
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    • 3.Life-form norms emerge from evolutionary history and developmental biology, making them naturalistic and observable rather than metaphysically mysterious.
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    • 1.Deriving evaluative norms from descriptive facts about evolution commits the is-ought fallacy without explicit normative justification.
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    • 2.Species boundaries are conventional and fluid in nature, undermining the claim that stable norms inhere in 'life-forms' themselves.
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    • 3.Evolutionary success (survival/reproduction) does not entail goodness; harmful traits can proliferate, and humans transcend survival-based norms.
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