Sentences with phrase «making utilitarian»

LeWitt was also interested in Russian Constructivism, with its engineering aesthetic and the idea of making utilitarian art in an industrialized age.

Recent projects include Another Utopia (2015), a year - long project culminating in an installation and film exploring the squatting and housing co-operative movement of the 70's and 80's in London, and The Potential Space (2014), a film looking at parallels between making utilitarian objects and artistic practice, developed with members of Friends of Cathja, a charity that supports people experiencing mental health issues.

The results suggest that making the utilitarian choice — killing the baby, tossing the man off the footbridge — requires a lot of cognitive override as we effortfully push against our instincts to hold back.

Making utilitarian rather than emotion - driven moral decisions, and resisting the impulse to make low transfers to one's partner require the suppression of the impulses to save one's baby, in the one case, and to keep the money, in the other.

Or ought they make utilitarian calculations about which actions will produce the greatest anticipated good?

Using a printer and open - source software, his team made a utilitarian replica for about five dollars.

Scientists have hypothesized that the result is a more deliberative frame of mind that makes the utilitarian benefit of saving five lives outweigh the aversion to pushing a man to his death.

Paint exposed pipes or ducts the same hue as their surroundings to trick the eye and make the utilitarian objects appear less prominent.

Another way to make a utilitarian space feel more decorated and in line with your home's other rooms?

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It was clearly made and contained sound, utilitarian advice.Thank you.

Principally because of its utilitarian usage, «happiness» has something of the same problem, although it also has classical associations that make it more easily disengaged from liberalism.

But the utilitarian mind gets the priorities wrong by making the byproduct the main product.

These may strike you as contradictory beliefs, but they make sense once you understand that Singer is a utilitarian.

From the standpoint of utilitarian ethics, triage is the most moral option for making such medical selections.

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

This makes Harris a consequentialist and places him squarely in the utilitarian tradition of John Stuart Mill who labored to give a qualitative account of the kinds of goods at play in the maximization of human happiness.

These cullings at times make it hard to distinguish Hartshorne from utilitarians like Von Wright who have a far richer conception of the good than, say, Hare, or from Kantians who have been heavily influenced by Kant's Lectures on Ethics and other of his writings more conducive to virtue ethics than the Grundlegung.

It must be admitted that there are certain potential vices to virtue ethics even in its minimalist mode, i.e., even when it does not try to crowd out the legitimate insights of deontologists and utilitarians (e.g., from the deontological side, that there are limits — deontoi — regarding what any virtuous person can be permitted to do, and, from the utilitarian side, that there are calculations which are relevant regarding many moral decisions the virtuous person must make).

City planning should make ample provision for parks and trees, and federal and state parks and forests should be steadfastly maintained against all encroachments by commercial and utilitarian interests.

The utilitarian individualism that is latent in all the counter-cultural successor movements, political and religious, makes this a real possibility.

Similarly, no logical mistake is made by a utilitarian who thinks that the only evil is pain, that at a certain stage a fetus can not feel pain, and thus that abortion is obviously OK with regard to that fetus (though any short - or long - term painful consequences for his or her mother would still need to be considered before approving of abortion).

The first remark that he is led to make is that the World «speaks» or «reveals itself» through symbols, not, however, in a utilitarian and objective language.

It makes so much sense to have a beautiful, utilitarian object that serves a specific purpose and can accompany you throughout the years.

I loved the utilitarian and affordable nature of the burlap, but did not love the mess I was making all over myself and the house each time I used it.

Re-reading Plato and Aristotle has made me to realise that by neglecting ancient philosophies and being preoccupied with neo-liberal thinking stemming from utilitarian philosophies have led us to a major crisis in our political and governmental affairs.

There may be a conservative and also an uncomfortable pragmatic utilitarian defence of the status quo — where liberal ends are often achieved by these undemocratic means — but the Lords» increasing influence makes the question democratic legitimacy, whether by election or other means, can not simply be ducked.

Philosophers and psychologists have long used variations on this vignette to examine different types of moral reasoning, including utilitarian decision making.

Through a series of experiments, Keysar and his colleagues explore whether the decision people make in the train dilemma is due to a reduction in the emotional aversion to breaking an ingrained taboo, an increase in deliberation thought to be associated with a utilitarian sense of maximizing the greater good or some combination of the two.

Patients with damage to the prefrontal cortex adopt a utilitarian policy when making difficult moral judgments

Since it's very difficult to hide anything at all in so little square footage, we've also tried to make sure that most of our utilitarian items (brooms, storage containers, etc.) are also nice to look at!

I guess I have a somewhat utilitarian view of yoga: I am mostly interested in how to use yogic tools to make my own life and the lives of my students better.

The utilitarian outerwear, featuring a fur (in this case faux) lined hood, is making a comeback on the streets of New York in a bigger way — the bigger the hood the better.

Kotchen and Berman's knack for weaving together texture and color is evident throughout the home, and it's just what's needed to make otherwise utilitarian spaces feel fresh and sophisticated.

How can i deny this and the type of climate we have in Bangalore right now makes it perfect to use this utilitarian piece.

Once a utilitarian accessory reserved for cowboys in the Wild West, this style is making its way to city streets across the globe.

Sophisticated leather booties with utilitarian details Self - covered stiletto heel, 4» (100 mm) Leather upper Ankle zip Buckled logo ankle strap Pointed toe Leather lining and sole Made in Italy.

They make me feel like I'm maybe going to dig up some dinosaur bones or host a guided tour of the African safari — So utilitarian.

Lol, I don't really that much, but I do kind of remember sitting through a Survey Of Fashion lecture in college where we discussed the implications and impact of the war on clothing and costume, how garments were made to be more streamlined, simplistic and utilitarian due to such restrictions and limited materials.

The olive color, front flap pockets and streamline structure especially embody the utilitarian look while the sleek pencil skirt makes it office - appropriate.

While it's pretty utilitarian in design, the materials are just chic enough to make it special.

I wasn't sure how much I'd wear this skirt but it's so comfy and the utilitarian tan colour makes it somehow less fancy, which I love.

A couple of slant pockets keep this cape utilitarian while gold snaps make it fun.

Dr. Raghunathan conducts research in affect and decision making, hedonic and utilitarian consumption with a focus on consumer behavior.

ICT is about developing utilitarian skills for future office jobs, as well as for learning those fun things in a teenagers life, such as photo editing, graphical projects, and game making.

The high load floor in the cargo area is a bit off - putting, however, making the sporty Edge less utilitarian than some of its competitors.

The purity of a utilitarian - spec Cup is appealing, but the additional luxury of our car made it a properly capable all - rounder.

The cabin is roomy and FCA deserves applauds for making it quite utilitarian while keeping things lavish in top trims.

The stylish Crosstrek is utilitarian but the ride quality is also very refined for the class and the crossover has an excellent chassis that makes it feel very confident.

Following the Discover Series 1 was the Series 2, which got a bit of a facelift as well as updated engine options, with a goal of making the Discovery even less utilitarian and more accessible to typical SUV drivers.

No problem making a business case for this one — a rugged, utilitarian Jeep pickup.