The mistake lies in making a separation between interest and self, and supposing that the latter is the end to which interest in objects and acts and others is a mere means.
The physical medium is reduced to a mere meansof personal contact.
And such abstractness means remoteness, and throws us back, once more, upon teaching and learning as mere means of getting ready for an end disconnected from the means.
Just as the hedonists regard a special act as a mere meansto happiness, so Kant makes the concrete act a mere means to virtue.
For the spirituality that is evolved here is treated for the most part as a mere means in the pursuit of human welfare.
For conduct changes its character completely according as it is regarded as a mere means, or as an end in itself; according as its aim is striven for directly or only indirectly.
Human beings, least of all, sustain the bare external relation of mere meansto the great ideal aim.
Here the relation of mere means to an end disappears, and the chief bearings of this seeming difficulty in reference to the absolute aim of Spirit have been briefly considered.
To this order belongs that in them which we would exclude from the category of mere means--morality, ethics, religion.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mere means" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
