Sentence examples for any normative from inspiring English sources

It is, in our view, regrettable that Foucault's sensitivity to the complacent assumptions of militant discourse has been translated, in the work of his followers, into a scholarly effort to purge critique of almost all normativity, as if any goal or direction, any normative commitment, however mild, would perpetuate a dangerous naivety.

But he veers toward the second when he remarks that those  who "give up on absolute moral facts" will produce a world "without any normative vocabulary".

"The proposed marriage equality motion before the assembly effectively says to parents, children and society that the state should not, and will not, promote any normative or ideal family environment for raising children.

The argument is significant because it shows that we should not rush to give up on absolute moral facts, mysterious as they can sometimes seem, for the world might seem even more mysterious without any normative vocabulary whatsoever.

If so, the naturalist's inference does not really work without any normative premises.

So the definition of democracy does not settle any normative questions.

I will assume that philosophical approaches are broadly understood as any normative-theoretical approaches to ethics independently of what discipline it emerges from.

The findings of this study offer further evidence that in any society, normative values, including norms surrounding violence against women, are dynamic.

But in both cases, as, in fact, with any other normative system, the presupposition of the basic norm is logically required only of those who regard the relevant norms as reasons for their actions.

This means that moral prescriptions legitimately take precedence over any other normative prescriptions.

Any such normative theory must presuppose some analytical account of that whose goals, values, scope and structure are being discussed.