Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(43)
Cultural evolutionary game theoretic explanations of norms need not "smuggle in" normative claims in order to draw normative conclusions.
What normative conclusions does Lilla draw from his illuminating historical description?
But draw what normative conclusions you will from "The Stillborn God," this provocative book is to be applauded for doing justice to the complexity of our long attempt to reconcile our transcendental aspirations with human well-being.
The commentary, sometimes referred to as kuntros (literally, "notebook"), resembles a living tutor; it explains the text in its entirety, guides the student in methodological and substantive matters, resolves linguistic difficulties, and indicates the normative conclusions of the discussion.
One can read Lilla's story and draw precisely the opposite normative conclusions from the ones he asks us to draw: that the West's experimental testing and retesting of political theology, trying to see if there is any safe way of mixing politics and religion, has delivered an answer from which all may learn.
There are other cases too where Rawls's principles and liberalism more generally seem to yield implausible normative conclusions about what is just.
Similar(17)
But it is not clear how these facts support the normative conclusion Sidgwick draws.
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.
If (P) is valid, Value Nihilism false, and the descriptive doctrine of the will to power is true, then the normative conclusion about power, which Schacht is after, seems to follow.
The remaining task is to ensure that the non-cognitive component plays by rules that do not either leave part of a normative conclusion unsupported or cause incoherence in the non-cognitive side in such a way as to generate inconsistency where there seems to be none.
Thus, even if one thought that Nietzsche really held the strong descriptive doctrine of the will to power — the doctrine that all animate force (perhaps all force) is will to power — in his published works, it is still the case that he only uses this doctrine to argue for the normative conclusion in Nachlass material.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com