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Are There Any Aristotelian Naturalists?

i'm an essentialist, and i think morality is constrained by human nature. That we have a particular essence, and that the natural law sets dictates for us. To support that entire system, to make sense of essences and teleology, you're going to need an ordering mind in order to direct m toward their end. And god can also serve as te sort of the highest standard, the highest objective standard. Just because i feel crappy about myself doesn't mean i'm worth any less given a conception of duties too? I mean that's another sort of aspect of moral experience where we should be seen through an essentialism rather than filtered through an argument from eternal truths or anything like that

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