Moral Oughts

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Objective facts don’t negate a materialistic account. Even a platonic account of morality doesn’t negate a materialistic account of the world.

A person can hold both. They’re generally dualists. They think that some things are best explained by x, and others by y. Morality, perhaps, by ideals....the world by material.

The good, these sort of absolute moral oughts Wittgenstein highlights, are immaterial truths.

Plato’s conception of the Good isn’t a material fact of the world, it isn’t composed of matter.

Some forms of moral realism postulate immaterial moral truths, whether you disagree with such views or not.