Sentence examples for normative accounts from inspiring English sources

Normative accounts have been less predominant.

Two of them are normative accounts (conventional function and idea ownership).

This descriptive sense of "morality," where morality is based on religion, results in some significant conflicts with all normative accounts of morality.

Mansbridge's discussion of descriptive representation points to another trend within the literature on political representation — namely, the trend to derive normative accounts of representation from their function.

There is a distinction to be made between normative accounts of what CSR ought to mean and descriptive accounts of how businesses actually prioritise and perceive their business responsibilities.

Fuller (1988) partially accepted the empirical sociologists' claim that traditional normative accounts of scientific knowledge fail to get a purchase on actual scientific practices, but took this as a challenge to relocate the normative concerns of philosophers.

Of course, the first reaction to such an apparently naive claim may be that Arendt overestimated the power of thinking or that she held on to a highly normative account of thinking that does not correspond to the various modes of reflection, self-muttering, and silent chatter that goes by that name.

The central task of Habermas's democratic theory is to provide a normative account of legitimate law.

Quine's arguments simply do not show that no other normative account of the evidence-theory relationship is possible.

Therefore, those who defend a primarily normative account of recognition (and humiliation) distance themselves from what they perceive as the problems of overly psychological approaches.

However, when we try to flesh out that simple consequentialist thought into something closer to a full normative account of punishment, problems begin to appear.