Petrazycki's Argument Of The Social Ideal

As we have said Petrazycki needed the social ideal to assess the legal policy's direction. One may asks if Petrazycki set a goal for legal policy does it mean that he was a proponent of the paternalism? He was convinced that the ethical evolution of societies is a fact. Therefore, the statement that social ideal should be pursued with a scientific legal policy’s tools isn't really normative, but prescriptive. In contrast to the normative judgments, prescriptive judgments can be justified scientifically. These judgments are the conclusions of the descriptive statements stating causal relationships. If the appropriate descriptive statements is true, then prescriptive judgments that is based on it will also be accurate, scientifically justified.