Sentence examples for valuable independently from inspiring English sources

Thus, the English philosopher G.E. Moore, one of the founders of contemporary analytic philosophy, regarded many kinds of consciousness including friendship, knowledge, and the experience of beauty as intrinsically valuable independently of pleasure, a position labelled "ideal" utilitarianism.

Other opponents object that not only pleasures are intrinsically valuable, because other things are valuable independently of whether they lead to pleasure or avoid pain.

And if we believe that those activities are valuable independently of the pleasure we gain from engaging in them, then we shall probably gain more pleasure overall.

Environmental sampling was valuable independently in areas where no contamination was detected, by directing the investigation away from uncontaminated areas.

Outreach rheumatology services were perceived, by almost all interviewees, as supportive and valuable service independently led by specialist rheumatology practitioners: "They are a huge resource for us….taken a big workload of doctors in hospitals" (Hospital doctor 1) "We love having the service here.

The March for Science must be clear-eyed in its defense of the scientific process as an independently valuable human activity.

Zagzebski again offers the 'coffee' analogy to illustrate this: even if a reliable coffee machine were independently valuable, it would not thereby confer additional value on a good cup of coffee.

Given that value of this sort is possible, then it follows that it could well be the case that we value one true belief over another because of its extrinsic features i.e., that the one true belief, but not the other, was produced by a reliable cognitive trait that is independently valuable.

A 16th-century atlas of England and Wales by the early British cartographer Christopher Saxton (bound with an independently valuable set of maps and plates by Giovanni Battista Boazio) sold at Sotheby's in March 2007 for $1.3 million; three copies of the atlas sold for $165,000 each prior to this, and one sold in 1957 for $2,000, or $15,880 in today's dollars.

The subjectivity of the narratives does not threaten the reliability of the data, but is independently valuable, revealing attitudes towards drinking and premature death.

During the return journey, Linois had detached his frigates and they captured a number of valuable merchant ships sailing independently before joining the admiral at Port Louis, which Decaen had renamed Port Napoleon.