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The objectivity of Morality

  Morality is objective insofar as it deals with how to achieve the one goal all goal-having beings have, namely, fulfillment; for to aim at any goal, regardless of the goal, is to aim to fulfill the goal; but as such, all aims are bound up with the aim of fulfillment of some sort, and so with fulfillment as such. As such, objective morality simply follows from a conceptual analysis of the notion of goal making, where one also takes into account one's own circumstances, and so whether or not one's means and ends will help to achieve the fulfillment one can't help but aim at; all aim at fulfillment, whether they admit it or not, whether they recognize it or not, it is simply inherent to the logic of having goals; and this also means that 'all particular goals' are ultimately 'means' to this greater and ultimate end of fulfillment itself; and morality then is about success or failure at achieving that one highest goal; for some chosen means (including our chos...