Sentence examples for natural normative from inspiring English sources

Mohists advocated guiding reform of conventional social dàos using a natural normative 辯 biàndistinction of 利害 lì-hàibenefit-harm.

So the point of Zhuangzi's own reflections on the absence of natural normative endorsement of our shì-fēithis-not that  decisions should not guide us to stop making them.

Mealtimes provided a natural, normative and guaranteed time for dyad participants to connect with each other and friends and family.

Veteran orca researcher, Ken Balcomb, of the Center for Whale Research, notes in a National Geographic column, "Even many of the Army Corps of Engineers' internal documents recommend that returning the river to natural or normative conditions may be the only recovery scenario for Snake River fall Chinook salmon".

However, Lange does argue that the natural and the normative explanations of necessity are compatible, and that this explains our access to normative conclusions.

But in France, the church could be dismantled only by an outright assault; far from being experienced as a natural and essentially normative arrangement, the separation of religion and politics could be experienced as traumatic and terrifying.

Is there anything distinctive about the normative natural law position?

That framework provided an opportunity for conservative Christians to come to see some of their beliefs as normative, natural, and inherent, reinforced by broader support across the nation.

In other words, Christian privilege allowed many Christians to understand heterosexual marriage as normative, natural, and inevitable and therefore same sex marriage was an impossibility because it would have been unnatural, invisible, and outside the conceivable norm.

More recently, S-naturalism without normative skepticism has been defended by contemporary moral realists and natural law theorists like Brink (1988 , 1989 2001) and Moore (1985, 1992b).

Others in the ethical debate, notably Yang Zhu and related Primitivists, also appealed to tiān (natural constancy) as a normative arbiter.