Sentence examples for normative judgment from inspiring English sources

This may lend support to a norm-expressivist approach to normative judgment, insofar as such an approach focuses precisely on the notion of accepting a norm, and the evolutionary story provides good reason to suppose that accepting a norm is a "natural, biological phenomenon" (61).

Although scientific approaches to religion in the 19th century discouraged use of normative categories, elements of normative judgment were, nonetheless, hidden in certain of the new scientific classifications that had emerged.

"The apparent suggestion that we should not be treating persons with dementia when they develop infections rests on a normative judgment — that does not flow from these data — that their lives are worth less than the unknown degree of risk of contributing to antibiotic resistance," Dr. Appelbaum wrote in an e-mail message.

We may be expressing a normative judgment.

Harm is defined as a normative judgment on a trajectory.

The former claim expresses a matter of fact; the latter expresses a normative judgment.

These differences derive from conflicting normative judgments about what ought to be the ethical ideal, something not determinable by scientific observation.

In analyzing normative judgments of paternalism, Dworkin considered two possible normative options: either (1) it is never permitted to limit the freedom of others in an attempt to do good for them against their wishes or (2) it is possible to do so under some circumstances.

Given that account of the content of normative judgments it will turn out to be necessary that those with moral attitudes are committed to normative judgments which treat descriptively identical items the same for purposes of planning.

Accordingly, on these accounts, being autonomous is not the same thing as being guided by correct evaluative and normative judgments.

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