Sentence examples for normative practices from inspiring English sources
Each time we apply some natural, empirically guided interpretation in practice, we participate in shaping evolving normative practices (both linguistic and behavioral practices).
In detailed historical analyses, feminist and ethnomethodological studies of the history of science have been able to show the contingency of normative practices (Epstein 1996; Longino 1990).
But in neither case is there any call for revision of anything substantive in our views of ourselves or in our normative practices.
In a nutshell, Momigliano is looking at the several traditions of ancient history-writing as a set of normative practices that can be dissected and understood in their specificity and their cultural contexts.
This habit was grounded in the assumption that the ancient sage-kings were dependable ethical exemplars and, in some cases, that they were the originators of the relevant normative practices.
To be sure, Spinoza's view of Ibn Ezra was not uniformly positive, and, for his part, Ibn Ezra makes it quite clear that his philological tools are not to be applied against tradition, but only where there is no tradition, and, especially, where no normative practices are at stake.
"Muslim scholars should not judge this man on the Segway, but in no way could Islamic jurisprudence be used to justify this as normative practice.
Many questions abound: is thinking to be understood as a psychological process or, indeed, something that can be properly described, or is thinking in Arendt's sense always an exercise of judgment of some kind, and so implicated in a normative practice.
Also worrisome was the wholesale rejection by positivists of ethics as a cognitive, normative practice.
The thought would be to claim that law is a normative practice, and normative facts cannot be reduced to purely non-normative facts without losing something essential.
So, the reference to fundamental rights does not involve any closure to public involvement and they can rather be seen as "a public normative practice" (Beitz 2009, 170).
