These descriptive and normative approaches can be complementary.

Pragmatic ethics also differs from other normative approaches theoretically, according to :

The journal promotes a range of critical, normative and interdisciplinary approaches to political, social, cultural and ecological developments.

For this reason, some sources say that prima scriptura is the normative Catholic approach.

A more fundamental development is the shift from normative to empirically based approaches.

There are many other normative approaches to the philosophy of law, including critical legal studies and libertarian theories of law.

Yet the House of Lords, embracing a more normative approach to causation, still held the doctor liable.

William Bain's main research interests are international relations theory and normative approaches to world affairs.

Margaret Gilbert takes a normative approach dealing specifically with group formation.

Ethics in public administration serves as a normative approach to decision making.