Instrumental value (or extrinsic value, contributory value) is the value of objects, both physical objects and abstract objects, not as ends-in-themselves, but a means of achieving something else. It is often contrasted with items of intrinsic value. It is studied in the field of value theory.
An ethic good with instrumental value may be regarded as an ethic mean, not necessarily being an end in itself.
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“America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)