Sentence examples for value rational from inspiring English sources

It seems best to understand Kant, and other philosophers who have since written in the same vein (cf. Anderson 1993), as being concerned not with the question of what intrinsic value rational beings have—in the sense of "intrinsic value" discussed above but with the quite different question of how we ought to behave toward such creatures (cf. Bradley 2006).

While the second Critique claims that good things owe their value to being the objects of the choices of rational agents, they could not, in his view, acquire any value at all if the source of that value, rational agency, itself had no value.

Therefore, in contrast with the ontology of complexity reduction, Chinese philosophical ideas about social practice (as pragmatic in a value rational way) are impossible to study and present at a sophisticated level by employing a rational structural approach (Zhang et al., 2011).

His aim is to separate intelligence from rationality, so that, in additional to traditional IQ, we as a society can also teach and value rational beliefs and actions.

A rotational surface is produced by combining λμ-B-spline with a transfinite vector valued rational interpolation function.

[ 60] But, as noted by Beyleveld and Brownsword, "from any perspective that values rational debate about human genetics, it is an abuse of the concept of human dignity to operate it as a veto on any practice that is intuitively disliked".[ 61] Finally, we are in danger of trivializing and degrading the potential normative value of human dignity.

They were "value-rational"—that is to say, their rationality was organized around values, not goals.

They were "value-rational" — that is to say, their rationality was organized around values, not goals.

A value-rational person would accept his fourteen-year-old daughter's polygamous marriage, if he was convinced that it was in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

This quote leads me to the last research question as to whether the individual economic actions of migrant entrepreneurs are more value-rational [wertrational] or goal-instrumental [zweckrational]?

Secondly, which new possibilities and new limits for migrant entrepreneurs result from the mixed-embedded economic action between life-worlds and system and, finally, how can the individual actions of migrant entrepreneurs be described (are they value-rational [wertrational] or goal-instrumental [zweckrational])?