GE Moore in his work Pricipia Ethica points out that something complex can be explained by specifying its basic properties (quoted in Schroeder). In contrast, Moore explains that something simplistic cannot be further explained using basic properties (quoted in Schroeder). To try to explain something simplistic by fundamental properties would be to commit a naturalistic fallacy. The naturalistic fallacy is a fallacy because it is a definitional fallacy and is similar to the is-ought distinction. Evolutionary ethics is a good candidate for committing the naturalistic fallacy because it attempts to define ethical terms in terms of naturalistic properties (Boniolo 13). , Moore chapter 2 and Schroeder). Proponents of evolutionary ethics, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer both made a naturalistic error in defining the term "good" as something pleasant (Schroeder). An adequate definition of a term is one that includes a part within a whole (Moore chapter 1). Defining the term good in terms of something pleasant is to imply that it has smaller properties/parts (Moore chap....