prescriptivism

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(linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics

(ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior

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According to prescriptivism, morality is not about knowledge (of moral facts), but about character (to choose to do the right thing). Source: Internet

According to prescriptivism, phrases like "Thou shalt not murder!" or "Do not steal!" are the clearest expressions of morality, while reformulations like "Killing is wrong" tend to obscure the meaning of moral sentences. Source: Internet

Arguments in favour of non-cognitivism Arguments for prescriptivism focus on the function of normative statements. Source: Internet

It is however different from the cognitivist supernaturalism which interprets morality as subjective will of god, while prescriptivism claims that moral rules are universal and can be found by reason alone without reference to a god. Source: Internet

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