Sentences with phrase «utilitarianism bases»

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Bad laws are based on a different moral system, like relativism or utilitarianism.

As it says «the economists» most basic problem is anthropological», in other words the subject is based upon a narrow and restrictive concept of rationality which ignores the richness of human relations in favour of an obsolete utilitarianism.

There is little basis in history for the promise that this religion sincerely followed will bring fullness of life to its adherents in the sense that theological utilitarianism intends.

Charles Reynolds, in his article, «Somatic Ethics: Joy and Adventure in the Embodied Moral Life,» is more accurate in claiming that an ethics based on process metaphysics «avoids the beguiling trap of utilitarianism for an ideal participant perspective» (SE 127, my emphasis).

Although many concur in categorizing any ethical system based on process metaphysics as teleological or consequentialist, recent writings have gone beyond this, attempting to demonstrate the affinity between process ethics and utilitarianism.

A hundred or 200 years ago my forerunners among political economists could find their valuational moorings in the philosophies of natural right and utilitarianism, which in their turn were based on the associational psychology of hedonism — and which are now, in my view, defunct.

The lesson gives a comprehensive introduction to action based Utilitarianism and includes several moral dilemmas for students to apply to the theory.

The theory of utilitarianism is based on the idea that the utility should be maximized.