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It is because these contents are evaluative that the passions will be motivating in ways that are normally functional.
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A second source of the interest in this question may be the suspicion (or hope) that if legal theory proves to be inherently evaluative, that would be an independent reason to adopt some version of natural law theory.
This result points to the possibility that the latter dimensions might either be perceived more heterogeneously or that these dimensions are more normatively evaluative, that is, people stick to social norms and do not dare answer to be disagreeable, which would lead to less reliable answers than for less evaluative dimensions.
The problem is that there seem to be reasons for having various attitudes that do not bear directly on the evaluative questions that the analyses seek to analyze.
The challenge for sentimentalism, by contrast, is to produce a theory of the sentiments on which they can be understood independently of the evaluative concepts that the theory uses them to analyze.
Therefore a norm is legally valid (i.e., authoritative) only if its validity does not derive from moral or other evaluative considerations that the law is intended to replace.
The four types of theodicies considered so far all appeal to beliefs and evaluative claims that the theodicist thinks should be acceptable, upon careful reflection, to anyone, including those who are not religious.
The analysis reported in this paper was primarily an evaluative analysis that focuses on the performance of the questionnaires.
More recently, researchers have proposed that attitudes are evaluative judgments that are constructed in the situation based on currently accessible information (Schwarz, 2007; Gawronski & Bodenhausen, 2006), that is, employees' attitudes towards their jobs or organizations (such as turnover intention) are changeable rather than static.
Moreover, one might think that functions are evaluative in the sense that attributing a function to something is to endorse a standard by which that thing may be judged as successful or unsuccessful.
Once the naturalist allows that there are non-moral evaluative properties that are relevant to the assessment of theories there is room for the non-naturalist to argue that moral evaluative properties need not be all that different (metaphysically and epistemologically) and hence no more problematic than the evaluative properties presupposed by the objection.
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