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    Supports→Aristotle's function argument is vulnerable to the is-ought criticism.

    Philippa Foot's neo-Aristotelian naturalism requires grounding normativity in biological facts about species flourishing, which itself presupposes contested metaphysical teleology.

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    Metaphysical teleology(an assumption critics say Foot's view requires)
    The belief that things in nature have built-in purposes or end-goals they're aimed at—like the idea that a plant's purpose is to grow and reproduce. This is 'contested' because modern science questions whether nature really works this way.
    Philippa Foot(as a key neo-Aristotelian thinker)
    A 20th-century philosopher who revived Aristotelian ethics and argued that morality is grounded in facts about human nature and what helps us flourish.
    Species flourishing(the biological facts Foot appeals to)
    The idea that members of a kind of living thing (like humans, wolves, or oak trees) have a natural way of thriving—developing their abilities and living well according to their nature.
    grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
    A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.

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    metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
    On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
    naturalism(Mill's philosophical framework as characterized in the passage)
    A substantive theoretical doctrine offering a systematic and coherent way of thinking about the world and the history of human theoretical engagement with it
    neo-Aristotelian(as used in metaethics and virtue ethics)
    A modern philosophical approach that builds on ideas from Aristotle (ancient Greek philosopher) but updates them for contemporary thinking.
    normativity(Explained via rational willing in the Kantian framework)
    The property of norms that makes them requirements incumbent on all agents.
    teleology(Aristotle's natural philosophy)
    Explanation of natural phenomena in terms of purposes or ends — things occurring for the sake of something

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