Sentence examples for normative connection from inspiring English sources

Another way of asking a justification question seeks not a normative connection between qualities of persons and moral obligation, but an explanation for our belief that humans (and perhaps other beings) are owed respect, for example: What in our experience of other humans or in our evolutionary history explains the development and power of this belief?

However, they maintain, the distinctive connection is either itself a normative connection between the claims and motivation or else it is a conceptual connection between the claims (or their truth) and which actions a person has reason to perform (Smith 1994).

Both the views of Williams and of Mackie's Plato posit a necessary connection between normative status and motivation, but the former view makes normative status depend, in a way the latter view would flatly reject, on an individuals' subjective motives.

The most prominent normative position in this connection concerns tolerance.

Insofar as non-cognitivism can explain the connection between normative or moral judgments and motivation we have some reason to accept it.

The working group was founded in 2007, with the objective of bringing together researchers interested in the challenges of empirical research in bioethics, and particularly its relevance to and connection with normative-ethical research.

Yet he does want to say that this normative consent has a genuine connection to the will.

Moral motivation has, in any case, received far greater attention than motivation in connection with other normative judgments.

This is also supposed to explain the close connection between the normative and the psychological dimension of recognition: On account of our intersubjectively acquired identity we have a psychological need to be recognized as having the normative status we deem to deserve.

"This is especially upsetting because there are a number of political theorists and philosophers of color positioned to easily say something meaningful about the movement and its connection to substantive normative issues".

This entry contrasts abduction with other types of inference; points at prominent uses of it, both in and outside philosophy; considers various more or less precise statements of it; discusses its normative status; and highlights possible connections between abduction and Bayesian confirmation theory.