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Prescriptivism

The view, in ethics that all ethical arguments tactly involve an appeal to some prescriptive premise. Hence, so it is claimed, any moral judgement includes some element of "telling someone how they should act". e.g., to say that something is good is not to describe it but to commend it (to someone).

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