 A recently influential alternative to the essentialist account of grounding proposes that we can explain the grounding of the ethical in terms of metaphysical laws. Here is the basic idea. One class of ethical facts are facts which state the instantiation of some ethical property. An example of such an ethical instantiation fact would be: Alice’s current state is intrinsically bad. One explanation of why the ethical supervenes is that such facts are always grounded in certain base facts, such as: Alice is currently in pain. The proponent of law-mediated ethical grounding denies that the latter base fact provides a complete grounding explanation for the former ethical fact. Rather, a complete grounding explanation will take this form: