Sentence examples for normative authorities from inspiring English sources

The literature, in which the idea of "Second Demographic Transition" plays a pivotal role, emphasizes the importance of the ideational shift from the influence of normative authorities to individual autonomy and the rejection of irreversible choices in shaping current trends in North America and Western Europe.

For example, some philosophers will question the normative authority of morality, while others will think of normativity as a very broad tent, including any rule- or convention-governed activity, such as chess or etiquette.

This might seem to provide a basis for normative authority.

Let's now turn to Kant's explanation of the normative authority of hypothetical imperatives.

To answer "none" and still treat tiannature:sky as the normative authority generates a dichotomy between human and natural dao.

Given the shared ru-moConfucian-Mohist assumption that normative authority for their competing first-order daos comes from some form of endorsement by tiannature:sky.

Perhaps the real challenge that the Euthyphro poses concerns the normative authority of the responses of any kind of subject defined in non-evaluative terms.

The mere fact that a morality is accepted by a society does not guarantee that it has normative authority in that society.

Such relativism deserve the 'Daoist' appellation on the further ground that it entails that normative authority comes from higher-level dao, not from the Confucian-Mohist tiannature:sky.

Our aim is to offer innovative ideas for restoring the Organization to its leadership position by exercising its normative authority, even as it faces a crowded and often chaotic global health architecture.

And the prospects for meeting this burden have never seemed strong: it is hard to see how such evolutionary facts can possibly have normative authority or force for a rational agent (McDowell 1995).