Stavros Lambrinidis is the European Union's Special Representative of moral principles or norms that describe certain standards of human behaviour commonly understood as what?
Stavros Lambrinidis Stavros Lambrinidis (Greek: Σταύρος Λαμπρινίδης ; born 6 February 1962) is the European Union's Special Representative for Human Rights.
Normative ethics Normative ethics is the study of ethical action. It is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when considering how one ought to act, morally speaking. Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions, while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts. Normative ethics is also distinct from descriptive ethics, as the latter is an empirical investigation of people’s moral beliefs. To put it another way, descriptive ethics would be concerned with determining what proportion of people believe that killing is always wrong, while normative ethics is concerned with whether it is correct to hold such a belief. Hence, normative ethics is sometimes called "prescriptive", rather than "descriptive". However, on certain versions of the meta-ethical view called moral realism, moral facts are both descriptive and prescriptive at the same time.