holds that virtue (sort of natural property) plays a key role in ethics
Foot: virtues depend on a certain biological and sociologicalfacts about human)
Scientific facts do not lead away from virtue but towards it
Biology and sociology can direct us to see what is virtuous so individuals should strive to us to see what is virtuous, so individuals should strive to recognise, pursue and attain virtues that can lead to human flourishing
We can see that morality does have a factual content, namely the flourishing content, namely the flourishing of human beings
this is content is notabsolute but it is objective being really 'in' the natural world