"Instrumental" and "value rationality" are terms scholars use to identify two ways individuals act in order to optimize their behavior. Instrumental rationality...
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instrumental and intrinsic value are few. Consequentialism Fact–value distinction Instrumentalism Instrumental and value rationality Instrumental and...
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"Instrumental" and "value-rational action" are terms scholars use to identify two kinds of behavior that humans can engage in. Scholars call using means...
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Communicative rationality or communicative reason (German: kommunikative Rationalität) is a theory or set of theories which describes human rationality as a necessary...
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contrast, instrumental goals, or instrumental values, are only valuable to an agent as a means toward accomplishing its final goals. The contents and tradeoffs...
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or value. John Dewey (American pragmatist) Richard Rorty Instrumental and value rationality Instrumental and intrinsic value Natural kind Fact–value distinction...
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Social relation (redirect from Forms of activity and interpersonal relations)
life and how they determine their relationships. Society portal Affectional action Communicative action Dramaturgical action Instrumental and value-rational...
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states, such as beliefs and intentions, or to persons who possess these other forms of rationality. A thing that lacks rationality is either arational, if...
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Categorical imperative (section Freedom and autonomy)
Deontological ethics Golden Rule Generalization (logic) Instrumental and value rationality Kantianism Normative ethics Kant, Immanuel (1993) [1785]....
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means'). Value rational or Instrumentally rational social action is divided into two groups: rational consideration and rational orientation. Rational consideration...
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value intrinsic and extrinsic properties. An ethic good with instrumental value may be termed an ethic mean, and an ethic good with intrinsic value may...
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Natural kind (section Hasok Chang and Rasmus Winther)
reasoning – Method of logical reasoning Instrumentalism – Position in the philosophy of science Instrumental and value rationality – Philosophical terms New riddle...
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Max Weber (category Critics of work and the work ethic)
affectional, traditional, instrumental, and value-rational action. In his methodology, he distinguished himself from Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx in that his...
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Charisma (category Charismatic and Pentecostal Christianity)
with symbolic value or widespread popular appealPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets Instrumental and value-rational action – Philosophical...
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John Rawls (category Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters)
reasonable—the result of the free exercise of human rationality under the conditions of open enquiry and free conscience that the liberal state is designed...
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Amartya Sen (redirect from Amartya Sen and politics)
concept observed and introduced by Sen Instrumental and value rationality, describing some of his differences with John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and James Gouinlock...
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intrinsic and instrumental value. An entity has intrinsic value if it is good in itself, independent of external factors. An entity has instrumental value if...
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criticism of the concept of rationality and its role in economics. He argued that “Rationality” has played a central role in shaping and establishing the hegemony...
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intrinsic value is a property of anything that is valuable on its own. Intrinsic value is in contrast to instrumental value (also known as extrinsic value), which...
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Affectional action Collective action Collective effervescence Instrumental and value-rational action Interpersonal relationship Political movement Social...
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[citation needed] Society portal Group action (sociology) Instrumental and value-rational action Interpersonal relationship Symbolic interactionism Traditional...
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the time value (TV) (extrinsic or instrumental value) of an option is the premium a rational investor would pay over its current exercise value (intrinsic...
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reason Philosophy of action Phronesis Pure practical reason Rationality Rationality and Power Rhetorical reason Tacit knowledge Summa Theologiæ, I-IIª...
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concept of rational egoism in depth. According to Rand, a rational man holds his own life as his highest value, rationality as his highest virtue, and his happiness...
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of Max Weber's means-end action structure is summarized in Instrumental and value-rational action Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002) was a French theorist who...
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Unintended consequences (section Marx and Engels)
from what Max Weber defined as rational social action: instrumentally rational and value rational. Merton also stated that "no blanket statement categorically...
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Democratic education Dewey Commission Inquiry-based learning Instrumental and value-rational action John Dewey bibliography John Dewey Society League for...
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Paradox of voting (redirect from Rationality of voting)
prefer. This implies that the rational behavior of voters includes the instrumental as opposed to only the intrinsic value they derive from their vote....
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Eliezer Yudkowsky (redirect from Rationality: From AI to Zombies)
Potter and the Methods of Rationality uses plot elements from J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series to illustrate topics in science and rationality. The New...
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religious belief. Caplan posits that there are two types of rationality: Epistemic rationality, which roughly consists of forming beliefs in truth-conducive...
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