Sentence examples for matters of values from inspiring English sources

Does it matter whether Peter's high income is due to a large inheritance or to his willingness to work long hours at a dreary job?" Economics, Mr. Mankiw concludes, won't tell us, definitively, whether Peter or Paula is paying too much, because an answer inevitably leads to matters of values, which inevitably leads to different answers.

Their duty, courage and sacrifice belongs to the army and through it the country; what they think about matters of value, life and death belongs to themselves.

Given the vernacular connotations of the word, relating to wisdom and matters of value ("My philosophy of dieting is…"), this "philosopher" would have to explain that she didn't practice that kind of philosophy, but rather the kind that deals with the laws of matter and energy.

It is thus concerned not with matters of fact and their explanation, but with matters of value, of what it would be desirable to do.

Does the unification of these parts of science involve only matters of fact or are matters of value involved as well?

If so, then your question concerns matters of value, namely what is good for people the sort of thing that ethical theorists are trained to address.

But there are other areas which arguably involve matters of value, such as theoretical and practical reason, aesthetics, and so on.

How, then, can some moral or political rules be rightly imposed on all of us, particularly if we assume deep and permanent disagreement amongst persons about matters of value, morality, religion, and the good life?

The burdens of judgment are the many "hazards involved in the correct (and conscientious) exercise of our powers of reason and judgment in the ordinary course of political life," (Rawls 1996, 55 56) which explain how reasonable and rational people will permanently disagree about many matters of value and ethics.

As the cliche says, it is a matter of values.

The "money interest" has yielded to "the elite," as populism has become a matter of "values," rather than class.