Infrastructuralism: An Alpha-Metanormative Ethical Theory, The Foundation Beneath the Big Three

This paper introduces Infrastructuralism as the first explicitly articulated Alpha-Metanormative Ethical Theory, a theory that is both meta-ethical and normative, and which names the substrate conditions necessary for morality to exist. It argues that viability-enabling infrastructure are the preconditions for moral agency, and that from this foundation both a meta-ethical and normative framework can be derived. Infrastructuralism is positioned as the floor upon which Consequentialism, Deontology, and Virtue Ethics stand, while also offering a fourth pillar: the preservation of moral possibility itself.