Consider deontological or virtue-ethical concepts like honesty or courage. Are you classifying them as values, goals, or strategies? It seems they are not strategies, because you say that strategies only have instrumental value. But they are not outcomes either, at least not in the usual way, because e.g. a deontologist won’t tell one lie now in order to get a 10% chance of avoiding 20 lies in the future. Can you elaborate on how you’d characterize this stuff?
I’d classify them as values insofar as people care about them intrinsically.
Then they might also be strategies, insofar as people also care about them instrumentally.
I guess I should get rid of the “only” in the sentence you quoted? But I do want to convey “something which is only a strategy, not a goal or value, doesn’t have any intrinsic value”. Will think about phrasing.
Consider deontological or virtue-ethical concepts like honesty or courage. Are you classifying them as values, goals, or strategies? It seems they are not strategies, because you say that strategies only have instrumental value. But they are not outcomes either, at least not in the usual way, because e.g. a deontologist won’t tell one lie now in order to get a 10% chance of avoiding 20 lies in the future. Can you elaborate on how you’d characterize this stuff?
I’d classify them as values insofar as people care about them intrinsically.
Then they might also be strategies, insofar as people also care about them instrumentally.
I guess I should get rid of the “only” in the sentence you quoted? But I do want to convey “something which is only a strategy, not a goal or value, doesn’t have any intrinsic value”. Will think about phrasing.