[From Latin prescriptionem: a precept or rule.] (ethics) The view that the function of ethics is to tell people what they should do, not merely to describe what people actually do; thus it is opposed to descriptivism.
[From Latin prescriptionem: a precept or rule.]
(ethics) The view that the function of ethics is to tell people what they should do, not merely to describe what people actually do; thus it is opposed to descriptivism.
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