Sentences with phrase «between utilitarianism»

I have argued that there is a close similarity between the utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill and the process ethics» of Charles Hartshorne.

While the common - sense Lockian version was the most pervasive current of American thought has not been fully conscious of these implications, the relation between utilitarianism and Anglo - American social science has been close and continuous from Hobbes and Locke to the classical economists of the 18th and early 19th centuries to the social Darwinists of the late 19th century and finally to such influential present - day.

The coming - apart of unholy alliances, such as that between utilitarianism and biblical religion, could lead to some new imaginative visions, some alternatives to the ever - increasing dominance of governmental and corporate bureaucracy into which we have fallen.

Not exact matches

Thus we have it — virtue and interest, covenant and utilitarianism — the American civil religion has always ranged between those heights and those depths.

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.

The affinity between this mode of economic organization and certain modes of moral and cognitive culture that have roots deep in western culture undoubtedly helps explain why those modes, utilitarianism and science, have become such central cultural forms in modern America.

As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.

Mill uses a distinction between «higher» and «lower» pleasures to respond to the criticism that utilitarianism can not account for the moral significance of the differences between human beings and (other) animals.

Mill himself recognized some degree of tension between justice and utility, for the entire final chapter of Utilitarianism is devoted to an attempt to clarify the relationship between the two concepts.

And I guess I'm «biast» because, in the battle between deontology and utilitarianism, I find the latter much more convincing — and I absolutely hate to see it as misrepresented as it is here in Thanos.