Sentence examples for normative theorists from inspiring English sources

Moral dilemmas keep normative theorists going.

There are many normative theorists who work explicitly or implicitly with a descriptive concept of legitimacy.

A distinction between negative and positive rights is popular among some normative theorists, especially those with a bent toward libertarianism.

Normative theorists seek an account not just of what criminal law is, but of what it ought to be (and whether it ought to be at all).

But it is an illegitimate assumption: normative theorists must be open to the possibility, startling and disturbing as it might be, that this pervasive human practice cannot be justified.

However, normative theorists must at least be aware of the nature and extent of the gaps between theory and practice; and they must be alert to the possibility that the gap might become so dramatic that it is no longer clear whether the theory can be seen as a theory of that practice.

Interpreting Karl Marx as an egalitarian normative theorist is a tricky undertaking, however, in view of the fact that he tends to eschew explicit normative theorizing on moral principles and to regard assertions of moral principles as so much ideological dust thrust in the eyes of the workers by defenders of capitalism.

In normative economics, theorists have often been wary of relying on concepts which are disconnected from the layman's intuition.

For desire-based reasons theorists, normative talk, talk about (justifying) reasons, is effectively talk about desires, talk the beliefs we express by which are made true, if they are true, by facts about the desires of the people to whom we say reasons apply.

Thus, stakeholder theorists see normative political philosophy as a natural source of theoretical constructs and normative principles applicable to the governance of firms (Freeman and Evan 1990; McMahon 1994; Moriarty 2005).

Several political theorists have offered normative justifications for the political project of nationhood, and I won't attempt to repeat all of the arguments here.2 So let me start with the simplest one – namely, the role of nationhood in stabilizing the demos, the units of democratic governance.