The word "evaluative" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to something that provides an evaluation or assessment of something else. For example, "The evaluative report provided valuable insight into the efficacy of the program."
So legal philosophy, even if not directly an evaluation of its subject is nonetheless "indirectly evaluative" (Dickson, 2001).
Furthermore, the United Nations office on drugs and crime recently released an Implementation guide and evaluative framework (pdf) for Article 11 of the UN convention against corruption.
Researchers break down people's feelings into "affective happiness" (everyday ups and downs) and "evaluative happiness" (a person's overall assessment of his or her life).
Its evaluative commitments are indeed contractarian.
Take the evaluative property of being funny.
The pluralism of decision-makers is also two-fold: (a) there are many individuals making decisions using the same body of materials, and (b) these individuals do not share a uniform evaluative outlook.
In everyday discourse, the valuing sense of respect, especially when used about people, most commonly means thinking highly of someone, i.e., evaluative respect.
The respect in (a), evaluative respect, is similar to other favorable attitudes such as esteem and admiration; it is earned or deserved (or not) depending on whether and to the degree that the object is judged to meet certain standards.
Directive respect does not admit of degrees (one either obeys the rule or doesn't), but the others do (we can have more evaluative respect for one person than another).
Basal self-respect is thus the ground of the possibility of recognition and evaluative self-respect.
In this sense, pride contrasts with both well-grounded evaluative self-respect and the interpersonal kind of recognition self-respect.
