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Meanings of instrumental and value-rational action in English

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Philosophical category that covers all processes of conscious and creative confrontation of people with the nature and the society.

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        However economic migrants, for example, were often young men looking for work.
        Reuters
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        Essential staff needed to continue critical work will remain, the statement read.
        Reuters
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        Energy Future began work on a new bankruptcy plan earlier this year.
        Reuters
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        Depression costs Irish business £170 million each year in lost work days.
        The Irish Times
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        Essential staff needed to continue critical work will remain, the advisory said.
        Reuters
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        But it does not accomplish the instrumental action save by exercising its proper action: for it is by cutting that it makes a couch.
        Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) / From the Complete Ame...
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        Another discovery is that babies appear to understand rational action.
        The Guardian
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        One clear note of confidence sounded amid the general babel may serve as the signal for rational action.
        The Transgressors / Story of a Great Sin / A Political Novel of ...
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        They are harmful to the wise man, or, at least, useless; he is in no need of irrational motives to rational action.
        History of Modern Philosophy / From Nicolas of Cusa to the Prese...
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        My husband, it is useless to endeavor to move this unfortunate man in his present condition; his mind is incapable of rational action.
        Monte-Cristo's Daughter
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        Of the Rational actions of the Head and Heart of human Creatures XIX.
        Wired
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