"normative thought" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the process of forming opinions or ideas that align with societal norms or standards. Example: In discussing ethical issues, it is important to consider both descriptive and normative thought, as well as the potential conflicts between the two.
While the theory initially guided the development of the law, by the 19th century and especially over the course of the 20th, the law had acquired such great practical importance that the most significant developments in normative thought about war were pioneered by legal theorists, with just war theorists trailing humbly along behind.
Many critiques have been leveled against particular contractarian theories and against contractarianism as a framework for normative thought about justice or morality.
We will consider the development of legal thought in the Anglo-American legal tradition, the role of external perspectives such as political science in understanding and practicing law, and the relationship between law and other forms of normative thought.
That R counts in favour of X is then a normative thought that I might have in deliberating; but that I count R in favour of X is a psychological thought about the state of mind on which the expressivist's analysis focuses, a state we might programme a robot to mimic (2003, 188 191).
In later work, he considers normative thoughts as contingency plans that settle what to do in actual and non-actual situations (Gibbard 2003).
Smith and his team have interrogated normative thinking.
Smith's argument is about desirability or normative reason thoughts, not about moral judgments.
In addition, Kirby sees the Church's goal as deconstructing "normative modes of thought and behavior" in American culture; she believes that it attempts to fight culturally ingrained thought patterns by shocking people.
1787; Critique of Pure Reason), Critik der practischen Vernunft (1788; Critique of Practical Reason), and Critik der Urteilskraft (1790; Critique of Judgment)—as normative disciplines of thought, and, second, into an eclectic or relativistic Kantianism, which regarded the critical philosophy as a system of thought dependent upon social, cultural, and historical conditions.
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.
This debate regarding the possibility of supererogatory acts reflects the deep underlying problem of the whole normative discourse in Jewish thought, namely is there an independent system of moral norms and ideals which is not directly derived from the Halakhic, commandment-based, legally binding (and enforceable) law (Lichtenstein 1975).
