The Dual-Closure Law of Normative Grounding

This manuscript argues that objective moral judgment requires a non-contingent normative foundation. Contingent existence, the purposive creation of rational agents, and the failures of non-divine frameworks together entail a dual closure: ontological closure at a Necessary Source and normative closure in its guidance. Rejecting such guidance renders right and wrong metaphysically unjustified. Paralleling The Dual-Closure Law of Authentic Feeling (which requires ontological and existential closure for authentic inwardness), this work establishes a unified “closure thesis”: no contingent domain can fully ground its defining properties without reference to a non-contingent source.