He sought to combine in a higher unity the Platonic and the Aristotelian philosophies, giving to the former a normative authority, and he did not hesitate to enrich his system by the incorporation of Christian ideas.
These, the constantly desiderated traits of a perfect universe, are in fact the limits of what adequacy environmental satisfactions can attain, ideas hypostatized, normative of existence, but not constituting it.
And accordingly, in interpreting the long history of technological evolution, we take what we conceive ourselves now to be as normative and essential.
And these normative ideas are brought by the collective mind into causal connection with the central idea of community of blood.
Here come in the legal, moral, and customary ideas, by which society exercises its normative power in reference to the said relation.
To point this out clearly, it is enough to mention that each relation is subject to the normative influences of the society in the midst of which it exists, and these norms and their sanction vary with the general social structure.
There are normative principles of prayer as well as the normative principles of thought; and both operate 'long before they come to the surface of human thought and are articulately expounded.
In Christianity those petitions are preferred in the conviction that the making of them is in accordance with God's will and the granting of them in accordance with His love; and that conviction is a normative principle of prayer.
So too it is in prayer that the normative principles of prayer emerge; yet men require teaching how to pray.
As a normative science, it is to be remembered, this is much more immediately concerned with the higher stages of aesthetic culture.
As a science it will seek to realize its normative function by the aid of a patient, methodical investigation of facts, and by processes of observation, analysis and induction similar to those carried out in the natural sciences.
The structure of allegednormative a priori mathematics is in truth the crowned result of ages of toilsome experience.
Mathematics is often cited as an example of purely normative thinking dependent upon a priori canons and supra-empirical material.
The use of the Pauline Epistles as normative for Christian thought and practice can be traced back to very early times, and has been continuous ever since.
But they are sufficient to show that Paul regarded the words of the historic Jesus as possessing absolute authority and His example as normative for the Christian life.
Language makes such rules the rules of the community; writing preserves them as requirements and thus exercises an important normative role.
Expressed in language, this rule has a normative quality.
It started as participation in magic and ritual, and it evolved in participation in symbolic forms, such as mancipatio, conventions embodied in normative acts.
One cannot, in short, define any absolute relationship between the normative sciences and the other branches of philosophy.
Ethics, the oldest and most popular of the normative sciences, is the formulation, as independently as possible of special subject-matter, of that which conditions goodness of conduct.
The New Testament, which completes the authoritative records of Christianity, completes also Christianity's normative statement of the truths and principles of duty.
The Sacred Scriptures, therefore, are the only infallible normative authority for Christian ethics, as they are for Christian theology.
Ethics again is concerned with a norm of life, and in this sense it is frequently styled a normative science.
On the other hand, Dogmatics supplies to Ethics its formative principles and normative standards, and preserves the moral life from degenerating into the vagaries of fanaticism or the apathy of fatalism.
If Christ is thenormative standard of life it is extremely important to obtain a true perception of Him as He dwelt among men.
The writings of the New Testament thus become ethically normative in virtue of their direct reflection of the mind of Christ and their special receptivity of His spirit.
Some writers, on this account, are disposed to regard Ethics as an art rather than a science, and indeed, like every normative science, it may be regarded as lying midway between them.
A science may be said to teach us to know {14} and an art to do: but as has been well remarked, 'a normative science teaches to know how to do.
I shall not here recall the controversies occasioned by the difficulties inherent in the normative character ordinarily attributed to grammatical schemes.
They all begin in the effort to describe what ought to be; and incidentally give some more or less fallacious or fantastic account of what is, merely in order to support the normative doctrines.
Thus even in Ethics there is now perceptible in some quarters a tendency to repudiate thenormative standpoint.
And, as we trace their history forward towards the present time, we find the positive element coming more and more to the front, until it tends to preponderate over and even completely to supplant the normative aim.
And, if we go back to the Politics of Aristotle, we find the normative or regulative aim still more prominent.
Yet none of them is or can be merely normative, or indeed as science normative at all; if that were so, they would not be bodies of organized knowledge, but bodies of rules.
We should then have applied physical sciences, applied psychological sciences, applied historical sciences, and applied normative sciences.
In this way the historical relation and the normative relation have to play at least as important a role in the pedagogical system as the psycho-physical relation, and we might quite as well call education applied history and applied ethics.
The art-bearings of the science are given in the normativecharacter of its subject-matter.
If we thus begin with the Normative Sciences, we stand at once before one feature of the plan which has been in an especially high degree a matter of both approval and criticism: the fact that Mathematics is grouped with Philosophy.
The Historical and the Normative Sciences The two divisions of the physical and mental sciences represent our systematized submission to objects.
These Haggadic sayings, however, were never accepted as normative for religious belief.
This book of law, with its further development and interpretation, remained the normative factor for Judaism for all time.
And by a conjunction of four characteristics these great normative lives and teachers still point the way, out of and beyond all false or sickly Mysticism, on to the wholesome and the true.
And it is profoundly significant that the doctrine of innate ideas, of the objective and normative value of ideas, of what Scholasticism afterwards knew as Realism, should have formulated itself in dialogues.
Such faculties are powers in a hierarchy of means and ends and presuppose a normative or critical function which has classified reality.
The distinction then is not in the strictest sense psychological: for it has an aesthetic or normative character; it is logical or ethical: it denotes that the idea or the act is an approach to truth or goodness.
The mere idea as presentative or immediate has to be kept clear of the more logico-reflective, or normative ideas, which belong to judgment and reasoning.
In the Ethic of the same author, aesthetic facts are presented as a mixture of logical and ethical elements, a special normative aesthetic science is denied, and Aesthetic is merged in Logic and Ethic.
The Philosophy of the Practical is a logic and science of the will, not a normative science.
The historical point of view describes the sequence; the normative follows the history to its conclusion, and then turns back and judges each historical step by viewing it in reference to its own outcome.
The historical point of view describes the sequence; the normative follows the sequence to its conclusion, and then turns back and judges each historical step by viewing it in reference to its own outcome.
The nurse reaches out into a body of normative information, transforming that information as understanding is created from within the situation.
Nursing, as we have come to understand our discipline, is not a normative science that stands outside a situation to evaluate current observations against empirically derived and tested normative standards.
The perspective offered by a normative discipline requires a reliance on empirical knowing.
Persons with altered levels of consciousness, measured on normative scales developed for medical science purposes, can and do participate in nursing situations.
The manner in which certain disciplines are conceptualized, especially those dealing in normative contexts, calls for a dialectical form of sciencing, comparing, and contrasting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "normative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
