Sentence examples for normative concept from inspiring English sources

Therefore, it is important to distinguish this conception from the one used here as a normative concept of integration and a subsequent model of policy.

I made clear that soft power is not a normative concept, and it is not necessarily better to twist minds than to twist arms.

Sustainability as a normative concept captures basic ideas of intergenerational justice when human well-being depends on natural capital and services.

Segregation, in and of itself, is not a normative concept, like injustice, but instead is a condition that, in order to ascribe causation, requires investigation of all its dimensions.

Other critics note that economists often view economic rationality as a normative concept (that is, it can be applied to a wide variety of people and situations), and economically rational people would thus be required to maximize their individual interests or utility, which could lead them to violate the interests and rights of others.

First, those who held most closely to the Marxian tradition (for example, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Georges Friedmann, and Henri Lefebvre) treated alienation as a normative concept, as an instrument for criticizing the established state of affairs in the light of some standard based on human nature, "natural law," or moral principle.

It also has to be considered that the responsibility transfer onto machines will have repercussions onto normative concepts our society is based upon.

In contrast to at least some other advocates of naturalism, Sellars rejected the idea that normative concepts such as knowledge can or should be analyzed in terms of nonnormative concepts.

In treating the relationship between the individual and community in light of such timely issues as friction between freedom and security, Moravcsik (philosophy, Stanford U). views individual and community partly as normative concepts.

Some theorists within this group argued that biological teleology could not be explained entirely in terms of natural selection because the former essentially involved references to normative concepts such as the "good" (of an organism or its parts), "benefit" (to an organism or its parts), or "harmony" (of a biological system).

By default, C comprises eight different normative concepts.