At the same time it is true that the moral sciences without the facts of the descriptive as a basis are empty; the descriptive without the ideals of the normative are undistinguishable.

Paul Thagard, From the Descriptive to the Normative in Psychology and Logic, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 49, No. 1 (Mar., 1982), pp. 24-42 ...

Christopher Simon Wareham, A Duty to Explore African Ethics?, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 20, No. 4, Special Issue: Moral Objectivity (August 2017), pp. 857-872 ...

I reviewed meta-ethics, rational ethics, normative ethics, applied ethics, descriptive ethics, moral ethics, and scores of other philosophies that all used ethics in their titles. I knew that the word ...

A normative statement is a claim about how things ought to be. For example, “Jazz is better than pop music,” “If you want to pass the exam you should study,” “Killing an innocent person is wrong.” The ...

Neuroscience and normative ethics There is a growing consensus that moral judgements are based largely on intuition — 'gut feelings' about what is right or wrong in particular cases 11.