“Normative concepts like right, good, obligation, reason, are our names for the solutions to normative problems, for what it is we are looking for when we face them. And if we sometimes succeed in solving those problems, then there will be normative truths: that is, statements which employ normative concepts correctly.”
– Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity
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