Sentence examples for instrumental value in from inspiring English sources

Community practices are justified by their instrumental value in promoting the welfare of all.

In the latter, the exercise of intellectual virtues is the sum-total of happiness; and the other virtues have only instrumental value in making contemplation possible.

Although this pernicious form can be of significant instrumental value in mobilizing oppressed people and restoring their sense of dignity, its moral costs are usually taken by philosophers to outweigh its benefits.

Scrivens and Smith (2013) argue that the term social capital conveys the idea that human relations and norms of behaviour have instrumental value in improving different aspects of people's lives.

At a time when "the ultimate, most sublime values have retreated from the public sphere" [Weber 1919/1946, 155], Weber found an instrumental value in nationalism insofar as it can imbue patriotic feelings among the otherwise apathetic citizenry and thereby increase their participation in public affairs.

That is, it seems that if this is a bona fide problem then it will affect any account of the value of knowledge which has the same relevant features as reliabilism i.e., which regards the greater value of knowledge over true belief as instrumental value, where the instrumental value in question is relative to the valuable good of true belief.

As a result, Hartshorne's metaphysics is meant to provide a basis for both an aesthetic appreciation of the value in nature, as well as for an environmental ethics where intrinsic and instrumental values in nature are weighed.

The importance items in our study reflect instrumental values in the sense that they are low in a hierarchy of values where lower values contribute to the realisation of higher values.

Kurth's The Anxious Mind is an excellent book, convincingly arguing that there is much instrumental and non-instrumental value in anxiety.

In the literature on environmental ethics the distinction between instrumental value and intrinsic value (in the sense of "non-instrumental value") has been of considerable importance.

So just as health is of both intrinsic and instrumental value to us in the body, so too is justice, which is the health of the soul, of both intrinsic and instrumental value to us as spiritual in addition to physical beings.