{"id":1132,"date":"2008-10-20T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2008-10-20T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T16:42:10","slug":"difference-between-ethics-and-normative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/10\/20\/difference-between-ethics-and-normative\/","title":{"rendered":"difference between ethics and normative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nevertheless, it is important in this regard to distinguish between our concept of ethics and our grounds for normative evaluation.\u00a0 It will be recalled that for us ethics entails acknowledging the radical contingency of social existence and responding to <em><strong>its <\/strong><\/em>demands.\u00a0 It is thus directly connected to the fundamental ontological commitments of our overall approach. By contrast, questions of normativity are directed at the concrete sets of social relations within which subjects find themselves, requiring the analyst to characterize those relations that are preceived to be oppressive or unfair in the name of alternative values or principles.\u00a0 It is important here to stress that we concede a lexical priority to the ethical as against the normative &#8230; This has important implications because it means that our normative stances are always relative to the ultimate contingency of social relations and practices.\u00a0 In other words, the norms and ideals that we project into our objects of study are intrinsically contingent, contestable and revisable.\u00a0 Contingency necessarily penetrates the realm of the normative, which in turn indicates the need to develop a suitable ethos for conducting research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nevertheless, it is important in this regard to distinguish between our concept of ethics and our grounds for normative evaluation.\u00a0 It will be recalled that for us ethics entails acknowledging the radical contingency of social existence and responding to its demands.\u00a0 It is thus directly connected to the fundamental ontological commitments of our overall approach. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/10\/20\/difference-between-ethics-and-normative\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;difference between ethics and normative&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-normative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}