Normative naturalism is primarily a metaphysical doctrine: there are normative facts and properties, and these fall into the class of natural facts and properties. Many objections to naturalism rely on additional assumptions about language or thought, but often without adequate consideration of just how normative properties would have to figure in our thought and talk if naturalism were true. In the first part of the paper, I explain why naturalists needn’t think that normative properties can be represented or ascribed in wholly non-normative terms. If so, certain prominent objections to normative naturalism fail. In the second part, I consider the objection that normative properties are “just too different” from (other) natural properties to themselves be natural properties. I argue that naturalists have no distinctive trouble making sense of thought and talk involving forms of “genuine” or “authoritative” normativity which can drive a non-question-begging form of the objection.
Epidemiologické práce ukazujú zvyšujúci sa výskyt diabetickej nefropatie. Diabetici s chronickou obličkovou chorobou sú najväčšou skupinou z pacientov na liečbe nahradzujúcej renálne funkcie. Renal Pathology Society zostavila patologicko-anatomickú klasifikáciu diabetickej nefropatie. Základnými biochemickými diagnostickými parametrami sú albuminúria a odhad glomerulovej filtrácie. Pracovná skupina European Renal Best Practice vypracovala Usmernenia o manažmente diabetikov s chronickou obličkovou chorobou v štádiu 3b CKD a vyššom. Kľúčové slová: diagnostika diabetickej nefropatie – liečba chronickej obličkovej choroby u diabetikov – výskyt diabetickej nefropatie, Epidemiological studies show increasing prevalence of diabetic nephropathy. Diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease are the biggest group from among patients on renal replacement therapy. Renal Pathology Society developed pathological classification of diabetic nephropathy. The cardinal biochemical diagnostic parameters are albuminuria and estimated glomerular filtration rate. European Renal Best Practice work group developed Clinical Practice Guideline on management of patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease stage 3b or higher. Key words: epidemiology of diabetic nephropathy – diagnostics of diabetic nephropathy – therapy of chronic kidney disease in diabetic patients, and Peter Ponťuch