Sentence examples for an absolute worth from inspiring English sources

There Kant says that only something "whose existence in itself had an absolute worth" could be the ground of a categorically binding law.

Third, because dignity is an absolute worth grounded in the rational capacities for morality, it is in no way conditional on how well or badly those capacities are exercised, on whether a person acts morally or has a morally good character or not.

They are people who have an absolute worth in themselves.

A floor with no oysters can be an absolute bonanza worth millions a year, say the L.S.U.

Frank Merola, a lawyer for the Official Committee, maintains that lacking an independent "market test," there's no way of knowing the perks' absolute worth.

But there could be categorical imperatives only if there is something of absolute worth.

As the sources of all value and of morality itself, then, these rational capacities are the basis of the absolute worth or dignity of rational beings.

Both attempts involve "illusion" (5:75), pretending that we do not feel reverence for the absolute worth and authority of the moral law and for our reason as its author and as supreme governor of our inclinations.

It is one of the most off-putting things you can do to anyone, an absolute killer, and worth two grand a day of anyone's money.

Worth an absolute fortune, round about £330m, the expert says.

And then walk right over to your wardrobe and flog off some of your old designer bags, as they're worth an absolute bomb now, and you can buy a new one.