Sentences with phrase «not utilitarian»

Design patents, known as industrial design rights in other territories, cover ornamental, that is, not utilitarian, aspects of an item.

The Nexus 6 is also a metal framed device with a premium look to it — not the utilitarian look of the Nexus 4 or 5 — its curved back fits great into one's hand... but it is definitely a two - handed operational device.

Also, I understand that «Useful Articles» (items of clothing such as scarves, for example) are not subject to any copyright protections, but the patterns which I'm hoping to encorporate into my scarf pattern are for items which it could probably be argued are not utilitarian in nature, but rather purely «to portray the appearance of the article».

Kant was not a utilitarian.

This could be an argument for a utilitarian state, of which there is no example on Earth, but not for a democracy or a republic or a non-democratic state that is not a utilitarian one.

It was not a utilitarian piece of baby transporting equipment, it was a really wonderful bonding tool, and a place where I could truly keep him close and safe and loved.

In fact, on several occasions Hartshorne himself is explicit in stating that his form of ethics is not utilitarian.

Though I am not a utilitarian, I believe that it is mandatory to ask whether other projects would serve the well - being of a greater number of people than research into human cloning.

Faith is not utilitarian but neither is it an escape from the search for the useful.

Not exact matches

Unless Mercedes is willing to sell the X-Class in the US as a purely utilitarian work truck alongside the Metris and Sprinter commercial vans, anything less than $ 40,000 for a mid-size product doesn't coalesce with the brand's premium pricing strategy.

On purely utilitarian grounds, it is desirable to have a higher proportion of economic growth going to low and middle - income Canadians, so long as the policies to get us there do not reduce the growth rate of the economy.

Reiss may not see his company as style - focused, but certainly Canada Goose's no - frills aesthetic falls in with major fashion movements of the past few years, from normcore to athleisure, utilitarian to unisex and, of course, authenticity.

Most of today's espousers of the liberal peace justify punishment, however, not by Kant's retributivism but through the later thought of utilitarians like Jeremy Bentham, who held that the purpose of punishment is to deter others from committing crimes and to rehabilitate the offender.

Not many ex-Communists in fact posed this question, because to do so would be to undermine the presupposition that binds Marxism with all modern forms of moral calculation; «the utilitarian attention to consequences rather than to actions themselves is liable to lead to a continuous evaluation of the present only as it leads on to some future.»

Subsequent to the utilitarians, the term «happiness» has not enjoyed widespread currency in political theory.

This hasn't meant that deep relationships haven't happened in the church as David points out, but it has set up in many communities for a number of these complex reasons where friendships become utilitarian — from leadership on down — the fruit becomes that the friendships exist for the church.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

The growing distance between doctors and patients allows for the expansion of the utilitarian approach that sees patients as organ donors, not individuals in need of care.

If you have an ethical or religious commitment to pacifism, for example, you won't accept the utilitarian's willingness sometimes to kill.

And if you have an unshakable belief that even severely handicapped children have an equal claim on our time and money, then you won't like the utilitarian's favoring of healthy, conscious, rational persons.

The preference utilitarian is concerned not so much with pain and pleasure as with allowing people to satisfy as many of their preferences as possible.

Quoting Jeremy Bentham, the late eighteenth - century utilitarian philosopher, Singer writes: «the question is not, Can they reason?

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

The roughly rule utilitarian ethics I live by just defines not only basic rules to live by on a daily basis, but more general acts of «good» and «evil» behaviors.

«Childhood ought to have at least a few entitlements that aren't entangled with utilitarian considerations, he notes.

We should not be quick to trade in our Gothic stone churches for utilitarian warehouse space.

This does not mean that the world is «good for» some purpose or simply has utilitarian value to humanity.

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?

Although the language of the poor is more concrete, more action - oriented, and more bound to pragmatic and utilitarian concerns, it is not necessarily more limited.

This affirmation, of course, is not verifiable on empirical grounds, or on utilitarian grounds.

So long as the prevailing view is that they are not necessarily wrong, public policy in a pluralistic system must be indifferent to any beliefs that can not be independently supported by rational (utilitarian) argument.

(I take «utilitarian» in a very generic sense, not merely Benthamism.)

If «utilitarian» arguments can not prevail, individuals should be content to have faith guide only their own moral decisions.

Personally, for instance, I would contend that deliberately induced abortion is wrong and that that conclusion can be reached on the basis of «utilitarian» (i.e., natural law) analysis; my arguments, however, would not be so clear that no sincere person could reject them without being suspected of perversity.

Yet being a utilitarian (not to mention a psychopath) he senses no injustice, because his actions benefited the many over the one.

I think that public policy in a pluralistic system (which can not be based on the mere belief of a citizen, since by definition it can not give precedence to any belief) must be justified only on utilitarian grounds.

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).

The Christian faith does not offer solutions in the utilitarian sense of that term.

A Christianity that is not socially utilitarian still has social relevance because its imperatives direct it to work in society.

If someone asks my religions (which is rare) I would either say that I'm not religious or respond with a bit more, like «I'm not religious, but I'm mostly a neutral monist rule utilitarian if that helps»... usually it doesn't and the topic changes.

The limitation of this argument, however, is that it can never transcend its constructivist and utilitarian (not to say nihilist) premises.

The first thing that comes to mind is, Can't see the forest for the trees and the next thing is based on a message that I heard a long time ago concerning utilitarian trees and fruit bearing trees.

A fourth argument has to do not so much with meaning or validity or doctrine as with the utilitarian and prudential question of what to do.

Those that do not allow the seed to fall upon the fertile soil of their souls are eager to accuse him of being «a liar» and «a madman» as they would rather lead a purely utilitarian life rather than experience the grace and love that He willingly offers.

It is true that our present sexuality is corrupted and a pre-Fall sexuality would have been pure and harmonious, but this does not necessarily mean it was ritualistic, utilitarian and passionless.

Therefore, the utilitarian might very well do less to the criminal than he deserves» but, for the same reason, the utilitarian might do more to the criminal than he deserves, for the utilitarian does not grasp the concept of desert.

the utilitarian answers «yes,» but it is a misleading «yes» because he does not understand what is being asked.

To the extent that the utilitarian critique was not itself able to construct a moral - religious context for a viable society, it has had to fall back on an uneasy symbiosis with the traditional pattern that it continues to undermine.

I hope it's not too utilitarian for the pages of this magazine to say that the poem has helped me understand fatherhood differently, to more deeply appreciate my own parents» sacrifices, and to have greater patience and faith with my own austere and lonely offices.

The winner is precisely the kind of essay one would predict; high on the kind of utilitarian / touchy feely / materialist thinking that these particular judges would find attractive if they have to vote for a pro meat essay, and strictly for humane meat or organic farming — the kind of food that a lot of folks simply can't afford.