The phrase "abstract values" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing philosophical concepts, ethics, or theoretical frameworks where values are not tied to concrete examples or material objects.
Example: "In her essay, she explored the role of abstract values in shaping moral philosophy."
Alternatives: "conceptual values" or "theoretical values".
What are abstract values?
In any case, Coker's realism was much more stylised and showed clearly that he also strove for underpinning abstract values.
And once you had abstract values, you had mathematics, and then it wasn't long before there was a market.
Now, fewer people are pegging their dream to material success and more are pegging it to abstract values.
They are more open-minded, more concerned about their children's future, more influenced by abstract values than traditional mores.
Fear activates an older, more primitive part of the brain than that which formulates and sustains the abstract values and principles of open society.
DeVoe hopes this research will give people a more concrete understanding of the abstract value of investing in free time.
Without any chance of realising a price at Sotheby's or Christie's, gangsters attribute a completely notional, abstract value of their own to it.
It is also hard for them to grasp the more abstract value of having insurance if they become seriously ill or have a major accident.
In "Democracy in America," de Tocqueville observed that Americans esteemed the arts and sciences more for their practical applications than for their abstract value — hence the popularity of newspapers, religious treatises, and self-help books.
Veterinarians and others' liability would rise "solely upon the abstract value of the injured animal to its owner and the owner's financial means to care for the animal," Barking Hound argued in a court filing.
