Explore: Normative Positivism

apply it in a particular case. As John Gardner has said, legal positivism is "normatively inert". It is a theory of law, not a theory of legal practice

of normativity and normative theory in the study of politics has been questioned, particularly since the rise in popularity of logical positivism. It

legal philosophy is also concerned with normative theories of law. "Normative jurisprudence involves normative, evaluative, and otherwise prescriptive

economics, economics is often divided into positive (or descriptive) and normative (or prescriptive) economics. Positive economics focuses on the description

Positivism is a philosophical school that holds that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive – meaning a posteriori facts derived

investigates normative questions about what people ought to do or which behavior is morally right. Its main branches include normative ethics, applied

Legal positivism Legal realism Metaethical relativism Moral anti-realism Moral realism Natural law Norm (philosophy) Normative jurisprudence Normative statement

international relations theory, post-positivism refers to theories of international relations which epistemologically reject positivism, the idea that the empiricist

The positivism dispute (German: Positivismusstreit) was a political-philosophical dispute between the critical rationalists (Karl Popper, Hans Albert)

contend that external factors may also be relevant. Debates about the normativity of rationality concern the question of whether one should always be rational