Will Baude speaks to the constitutional questions, which I sidestepped in my column in favor of more directly normative ones. |
From the dominant, normative, which is to say male perspective, virginity stands for the promise of permanent possession of the unpossessed. |
For Wallace, free agency can be understood neither in terms of certain motivational structures, nor in terms of normative judgement. |
In time, both prescriptive and normative qualities were ascribed to classical decision theory. |
The idea that people decide what is normative in life is opposed to the Word of God, which teaches that God is sovereign as the final lawgiver. |
While widely ridiculed, if we put normative considerations aside, she's largely right. |