Moral Truth: A Resolution Ethics Account

Can moral truth be approached before a completed theory tells the field what to see? This paper says yes, and shows how. The method is Stripped Field Testing, or SFT, which removes legal, institutional, ideological, and sentimental overlays while preserving what a world needs for moral testing: physical reality under change, a shared field where beings affect one another, and living beings with and without the capacity to give and act on reasons. With those conditions in place, SFT asks a simple question: which pattern keeps the field of living, affecting, and reasoning open, without adding degradation that serves no coherent purpose? Testing begins with the most minimal configuration: living beings inside a bare field of physical reality under change. Each stage asks what the most baseline coherent act looks like before moving further. Only when that act has been surfaced does the next stage add a new dimension: shared relation, dependency, and circles of responsibility. The sequence is threshold-driven rather than result-driven: each stage moves forward only after its own baseline pressure has been exposed. Only after that does the paper name what the field has been showing. The Resolution Ethics Moral Core, Moral Baseline, and Moral Intuition together prepare a scoped truth-claim: Resolution Ethics Moral Truth, or REMT. The paper then tests the named structure against three canonical puzzles and answers three major objections. The result is a baseline pattern that was there before any theory arrived to name it. Keywords: Resolution Ethics, Moral Truth, Moral Intuition, Moral Baseline, Metaethics