The phrase "a normative definition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing definitions that prescribe how things should be, often in the context of ethics, law, or social norms.
Example: "In the study of ethics, a normative definition of justice is essential for understanding the principles that guide moral behavior."
Alternatives: "a prescriptive definition" or "a standard definition".
Perhaps the greatest single difficulty both face is steering a course between a descriptive and a normative definition of global civil society - between what is and what ought to be (or, perhaps, what they would like to be).
" Accepting a normative definition of "morality" commits a person to regarding some behavior as immoral, perhaps even behavior that one is tempted to perform.
Because accepting a normative definition of "morality" involves this commitment it is not surprising that philosophers seriously disagree about what normative definition to accept.
As a matter of methodology it is preferable to see if some concept can be defined in non-normative terms and only if that fails to capture the relevant phenomena to accept a normative definition.
A normative definition of this kind will bring to mind certain legal descriptions of obscenity such as the U.S. Supreme Court's notorious Miller test, set forth in Miller v.
Rattani said, "Muslims have been trying to create a normative definition of what does it means to be Muslim.
Actually, that is also a perfect normative definition of open-minded politics – in Britain, in Luxembourg, in Europe.
Unlike the descriptive definitions of morality discussed earlier, which may have minimal implications for how a person should behave, the proposed normative definition of "morality" provides an explicit guide for how a person should behave.
If one accepts a moral theory's account of rational persons and the specifications of the conditions under which all rational persons would endorse a code of conduct as a moral code, then one accepts that moral theory's normative definition of "morality.
The proposed normative definition of "morality" is controversial but it does have some features that should be widely accepted.
By contrast, torture is not as is corporal punishment limited by normative definition to the guilty; and in general torture, but not corporal punishment, has as its purpose the breaking of a person's will.
