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    It is not the case that 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.Any adequate moral framework must ultimately justify why agents should act morally, requiring some evaluative appeal to goodness or rightness as explanatorily basic.
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    • 2.Non-teleological frameworks covertly presuppose evaluative priority when explaining why their foundational principles (e.g., fairness, consent) matter morally.
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    • 1.Non-teleological frameworks (e.g., contractualism) successfully explain moral obligations without positing evaluative priority as foundational.
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    • 2.Evaluative priority—treating values as explanatorily basic—is contingent on specific metaethical commitments, not a necessary feature of all moral theories.
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    • 3.Coherent explanatory force depends on internal consistency and predictive adequacy, not on which elements are ontologically primary or evaluatively prioritized.
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