The Importance of Derivation in Moral Theory

Although factual evidence and moral maxims are logically independent, factual and moral explanations are not. For example, in the nineteenth century, if an american slave had written a best summing book, that event would not logically have ruled out the proposition negroes are intended by providence to be slaves. Conversely, advocates of highly immoral doctrines almost invariably believe associated factual falsehoods as well. So there wit me talking again. There we have this concept about derivation. And people are fixated on the idea, especially morality, about trying to derive moral theories from a set of facts about the real world. But you can't de i you can't derive one from the other. Derivation is