The unity of grounding

Abstract

I argue-contra moderate grounding pluralists such as Kit Fine and more extreme grounding pluralists such as Jessica Wilson-that there is fundamentally only one grounding/in-virtue-of relation. I also argue that this single relation is indispensable for normative theorizing-that we can't make sense of, for example, the debate over consequentialism without it. It follows from what I argue that there is no metaethically-pure normative ethics (in contrast to Ronald Dworkin's claim that there is no normatively-pure metaethics).