Sentences with phrase «by utilitarianism»

Volvo, whose mandate is usually driven by utilitarianism over style, has now revealed another un-Volvo like concept in the form of its stylish Concept Estate shooting brake.

A decade ago social scientists predicted the demise of civil religion at the hands of the seemingly more aggressive individualistic and materialistic orientations supported by utilitarianism.

Not exact matches

Pantheism's error is obvious; anthropocentrism degenerates into utilitarianism by reducing God's creation to nothing more than a tool for satiating man's desires.

In this effort I hope to show that Hartshorne's thought is an improvement with respect to some of the weaker features of virtue ethics as it has been defended by some recent philosophers, in particular regarding the allegation made by virtue ethnicians that deontology and utilitarianism are defective because they depend on abstract rules.

Arguments against utilitarianism by other secularists often proceed by showing that the doctrine yields conclusions contrary to our most deeply held moral intuitions.

Questions of strategy have to be asked by the church serious about her task in spite of the lurking dangers of utilitarianism.

Recently the social form of this utilitarianism has been given high sanction in an official statement made by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.

Although that might appear to be a conclusion of mere practical reason, first reached by the so - called Enlightenment, there is also a case to be made for it in terms of biblical Christianity as well as «natural law» or secular utilitarianism.

I was planning to followup my critique of Kant with a parallel commentary on utilitarianism, but was waylaid by picking up some unread material sitting in my bookcase: an anthology of Aquinas» thought On Law, Morality, and Politics, Hackett Press, Second Edition.

It drew on the economic ideas espoused by Adam Smith in Book 1 of the Wealth of Nations and on a belief in natural law, [5] utilitarianism [6] and progress.

Start with the introduction to morality and ethics, followed by Act Utilitarianism and then the Hedonic Calculus.

He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by Jeremy Bentham, although his conception of it was very different from Bentham's.

His line of reasoning is generally opposed by those who criticize utilitarianism.