Sentence examples for normative laws from inspiring English sources

These action types constitute uncompromising, normative "laws of conduct".

Someone might similarly claim that there are fundamental normative laws or principles.

Kim would reply that Davidson is only interested in rejecting strict descriptive (i.e., explanatory, predictive) laws, not strict normative laws (see below).

In both of these passages, Spinoza criticizes the assumption that man is governed by his own set of rational, normative laws, rather than the laws that govern the rest of nature.

Second, pure general logic is absolutely binding on any rational human thinker and provides an unconditional logical ought: the laws of logic are the categorically normative laws of thought for all actual and possible rational animals.

Because certain Christians have assumed their religious worldview as normative, laws that affirm, for example, marriage equality may seem an attack on presumed expectations of Christian norms.

Then the normative impossibility of a state's being good just because it is painful could be understood as expressing a consequence of that underlying normative law.

In this context, F. A. Lange remarks very aptly, 'The law of non-contradiction is the point at which the natural law of thought comes into contact with the normative law'" (Schröder (1890), 11 13, citation from Lange (1877), 27 28).

By that I mean that even fairly early in his career Scholem held that Kabbala is a theology that requires a normative law (tradition) — largely as a foil — but is always in dialectical tension with that law.

Moreover, law is a normative system: "Law is not, as it is sometimes said, a rule.

Is there anything distinctive about the normative natural law position?