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    Teleological theories are committed to claims about value. — Carmelics
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    Teleological theories are committed to claims about value.

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    • Teleological theories appeal to evaluative facts in order to explain what is right, wrong, and what we ought to do.
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    • 1.Some teleological theories, such as Aristotle's function argument, ground rightness in facts about natural kinds rather than evaluative facts about goodness.
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    • 2.Facts about the natural telos of a being are descriptive biological facts, not inherently normative or evaluative commitments.
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    • 1.Railton's naturalistic consequentialism reduces 'good' to non-normative facts about idealized desire-satisfaction, eliminating irreducible evaluative commitments.
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    • 2.If teleological theories can be fully naturalized, their apparent commitment to evaluative facts dissolves into descriptive claims about natural states.
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    Teleological theories are not, strictly speaking, theories about value. They are theories about right action, or about what one ought to do. But they are committed to claims about value, because they appeal to evaluative facts, in order to explain what is right and wrong, and what we ought to do — deontic facts. The most obvious consequence of these theories, is therefore that evaluative facts must not then be explained in terms of deontic facts. The evaluative, on such views, is prior to the de
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