Even on Wolf's position, in which normative competence is the ability to track objective moral norms, normative competence is nevertheless a capacity.
According to various hedonist normative claims, all human value, moral norms, or normative reasons for action derive all their goodness and justification ultimately from pleasure and pain — from which, similarly, on various hedonist motivational claims, all ends people seek, in some way or other, derive all their motivating power.
(There is a parallel dilemma for non-moral normative contexts, if there be any, where normative reasons speak equally against doing p or doing not-p).
The moral theory of contractarianism claims that moral norms derive their normative force from the idea of contract or mutual agreement.
Personal normative belief or moral norms represents a measure of the personal feelings of moral obligations or responsibility to perform or refuse to perform a given behaviour.
Because freedom as transcendence undermines the idea of a stable, timeless system of moral norms, it is little wonder that existential philosophers (with the exception of Simone de Beauvoir) devoted scant energy to questions of normative moral theory.
Defining humanity in terms of "gains and utilities," the modern outlook "could not see the world itself as containing anything that made moral or normative demands on one," and led East and West alike into a "cognitive enslavement".
I will make the same distinction as I did in Forsberg 2012b, between moral and normative legitimacy.
Constructivists have not offered a distinctive account of the meaning and logical behavior of moral and normative terms and concepts.
According to Hume's Law, no set of premises consisting entirely of non-moral descriptive statements is sufficient to entail a moral or normative conclusion.
