PHIL 338 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Adolf Hitler
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Normative terms are terms that have action-guiding [prescriptive/ Some common normative terms are: ought; duty; obligation; permissible; and forbidden. When applied to actions, appropriate and inappropriate are normative terms. [note that not all normative terms are moral terms. For example, ought can be used in a non-moral, prudential sense, as in: one ought to eat nutritious foods. ] Normative moral terms are normative terms with moral action- Evaluative terms are terms that express approval or disapproval. Some common evaluative terms are: good; bad; excellent; and awful. Terms can express moral approval or disapproval, but can also express other types of non-moral approval or disapproval (e. g. , the statement that apples taste good is a non-moral evaluative statement). Purely descriptive terms are terms that are not normative and not. Purely descriptive statements are statements that contain only purely. Normative/evaluative statements are statements that include at least one normative/evaluative term. [note that not all normative statements are moral.
