non-instrumental

Csikszentmihalyi unintentionally induced what looked like text-book cases of generalized anxiety disorder in his subjects simply by instructing his subjects as follows: from the time you wake up until 9: 00 PM, "we would like you to act in a normal way, doing all the things you have to do, but not doing anything that is 'play' or 'non-instrumental.'"

Christine Carter, PhD: The Trouble with Motherhood PhD Christine Carter 2010

In other words, freedom implies that practical reason can be pure (non-instrumental, unconditional), and hence that we are subject to the demands of the Categorical Imperative; and our subjection to morality implies that we must be free.

Kant's Account of Reason Williams, Garrath 2009

I understand there to be value in identifying with people close to you, and not just in instrumental and economic terms again, which you admit, but in non-instrumental and moral terms.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Against Nationalism 2009

Unlike Wolff, however, Anderson makes the more radical claim that (true) egalitarians have, in a way, no non-instrumental concern about distribution at all: they are concerned about distribution only indirectly, their direct concern being that members of the community should stand as equals (compare Scheffler 2003, 22).

Justice and Bad Luck Lippert-Rasmussen, Kasper 2009

Others, however, ground this limit in a non-instrumental side-constraint on the aim of harm-prevention: a purely instrumentalist theory cannot justify criminalising only culpable conduct; we must instead appeal to a non-instrumentalist demand of justice, that those who lack fault should not be liable to criminal punishment (see Hart 1968: 17-24, 28-53).

Theories of Criminal Law Duff, Antony 2008

Yet he argued that conformity to the CI (a non-instrumental principle) and hence to moral requirements themselves, can nevertheless be shown to be essential to rational agency.

Kant's Moral Philosophy Johnson, Robert 2008

But if continuity also holds interpersonally, then the rational egoist must, if truly rational, promote the good of all those with whom he is continuous, which, given the thought that each of us bears only six degrees of separation from every other person, generates an important kind of impartial, universalist consequentialism: “the egoist can recognize derivative but non-instrumental reason to be concerned about others” (Brink 1997b, 127).

Personal Identity and Ethics Shoemaker, David 2008

A climatological observing station should be sited at a location which permits the correct exposure of the instrumentation (this may occasionally give rise to a split site), and allows the widest possible view of the sky and surrounding country if visual (i.e., non-instrumental) data are required.

Lights = 0, Air Conditioners = 22 « Climate Audit 2007

For the intervening years estimates are provided from a consideration of the Utrecht reductions, supplemented for 1713-1722 by non-instrumental observations of wind and weather in England.

Unthreaded #5 « Climate Audit 2007

But the problem of dualism and instrumentalism does not vanish by being part of communicative action, and knowledge as human liberation, not only as human interest, calls for the development of non-dual and non-instrumental modes of relationships which are not automatically guaranteed, even when we shift from positivism to a Habermasian communicative rationality see Bhaskar, 2002.

Jürgen Habermas, Sri Aurobindo and Beyond Tusar N Mohapatra 2006