Thoughts On Normative Sciences

A distinction can be made between "prescriptive" ethics,
that recommends what a person should do in absolute terms,
and "normative" or "pragmatic" ethics, that recommends what
a person should do in order to achieve the admirable or the
"good in itself" that is determined by a prior consideration
of esthetics. People of the prescriptive persuasion typically
criticize people of the pragmatic persuasion for being misled
by notions of ethics that are far too relative and utilitarian.
Be that as it may, one observes from the pragmatic perspective
that logic is a special case of ethics that provides the norms
for leading the conduct of thought to its proper object, truth.

Regards,

Jon

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