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The Normative Creature: Toward a Practice-Based Account of Normativity
In this paper I offer a first account of a practice-based conception of normativity
for the political domain. This standpoint is used to relocate the most sophisticated
normative practices of justification and critique within an experience-based framework,
that of the human being as a “normative creature.” I begin by discussing the two major
paradigms in political theory, showing that their neglect of this broad framework of normativity
is a serious drawback. I then proceed to articulate the central elements of a practicebased
account of normativity: the notions of normative practices and normative orders,
and an account of the rationality potential of normativity as practice.
Keywords: social practices; pragmatism; normativity; normative creature; John Dewey
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