Sentences with phrase «other utilitarian»

I have collected green depression glass for years and love the green canisters and spice jars and other utilitarian pieces I use daily.

Plus, they involve almost no construction but change the functionality 100-fold,» says Berkus, who recommends going for ranges, refrigerators, cooktops, and other utilitarian devices with stainless steel finishes.

The exhibition explores the uses of plywood and other utilitarian materials in art and furniture design.

Inspired equally by Abstract Expressionism and fashion, Mack integrates function with form in his work, using pegboards, moving blankets and other utilitarian objects in lyrical and unexpected ways.

To put it — for the sake of argument — a bit too simply: there have been behind the civil religion from the beginning two great structures of interpretation, the one I shall call biblical, the other utilitarian.

Other utilitarian design - oriented competitors include Chrome Industries, Incase, Tumi, Seagull and Jansport, Whitfield notes.

Not exact matches

«The iPad cases that other companies were creating were really utilitarian in nature.»

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.

The utilitarian belief that «human goods can be measured against each other by means of some quantitative scale is the belief that human goods can be assessed in a way analogous to that by which commodities have a monetary value.

Yet Niggle discovers, once he has died and entered a purgatorial realm, that the artistic life and the utilitarian world are necessary and complementary to each other.

Other critics have attempted to explain America's preoccupation with work as a reflection of her basic pragmatic, or utilitarian, outlook.

The stress on virtue that we have already noticed — Jefferson's «love of others,» Franklin's «zeal for the public good» — is very close to the biblical archetype, while the stress on self - interest that is also common among the founding fathers suggests the powerful influence of the utilitarian archetype.

Killing a person who prefers to continue living is therefore wrong, other things being equal... For preference utilitarians, taking the life of a person would normally be worse than taking the life of some other being, since persons are highly future - oriented in their preferences.

On the other hand Christianity has been profoundly infected with the utilitarian spirit, the primary stress on property and wealth.

If the human community depicted in Genesis 1 is a utilitarian one, where man and woman join together, like the male and female of other animals, to further the ends of their species, the community of Genesis 2 emerges from a crisis of existential loneliness.

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:

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.

Indeed, in my decades of work around issues such as euthanasia, utilitarian bioethics, animal rights, transhumanism, and other associated agendas, I have found that the more one rejects human exceptionalism, the more likely one is to declare that immoral and (still) illegal wrongs — like infanticide — are virtuous.

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.

Robert Bellah has shown that American culture from its early beginnings has held two views in tension: on the one hand, the biblical understanding of community based on the notion of charity for all members, a community supported by public and private virtue; and, on the other hand, the utilitarian understanding that community is a neutral state which allows individuals to pursue the maximization of their self - interest.16.

Cult religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Atheism, agnostics and all other form of religions that worship a man based earthly utopian system are ALL Antichrist because their net result is a unification / utilitarian approach at the expense of the truth of Christ.

On the other hand, Peter Singer (see Singer, 1976 and 1985) has consistently argued for a utilitarian ethic that includes all animal life.

To characterize Wiltshire as Olympus is to resist the prevailing ethos of bureaucratic individualism that denies binding myth, indeed any binding force other than utilitarian contracts.

While a retributive theorist such as Kant might hold that there is not only «a prima facie obligation on society to punish one who has infringed the rights of others; it is an absolute over-all obligation — punishment must absolutely be meted out or society itself is guilty of wrong» (ET 498), a utilitarian theorist would see things quite differently.

However, we also learned he isn't quite the player to build your midfield dynamic around, rather being a player who can enhance it in utilitarian ways once other specialist «number six» roles were tactically set.

A few bras will look basic and utilitarian while others may be elegant and fall more into the unmentionables classification.

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.

American liberalism, on the other hand, because it emerged partly from Progressivism, tends to take a more utilitarian perspective on such things, viewing autonomy merely as a means to an end, the end being increasing the happiness of as many people as possible.

Earlier, as part of the activities marking the 80th birthday of the former president, there was an international symposium, where a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young; a former permanent delegate of Kenya to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, Dr. Mary Khimulu, and others spoke on the theme: «Purpose and utilitarian values of presidential libraries.»

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.

Grassle thought it was a splendid idea, as long as it didn't get diverted into something strictly utilitarian — a census of seafood — and as long as it included all the other things that lived in the ocean, including obscure but biologically important organisms like polychaetes.

Most people see the value in the utilitarian option of harming one if it protects scores of others.

New York City About Blog Jenneng Studio uses new and found materials to create durable, utilitarian bags and other small accessories.

On the other, even the BAFTAs, which collectively bore The King's Speech's children over the weekend, passed on giving it a lensing award, so maybe fans of its utilitarian, only occasionally off - kilter compositions are truly few.

Some might call this suicide, but others would call it a noble utilitarian sacrifice that could save the universe.

Simple tools with clean and utilitarian features have a huge advantage over other collaboration tools as they are better adopted by all employees — irrespective of their educational or professional backgrounds.

Design: «Utilitarian» best describes NFHS.org, but unlike many other uninspired site designs, this one at least maintains a decent color scheme.

It somewhat fit what I envisioned the Discovery brand to represent — less luxurious and more utilitarian compared to a Range Rover — but it's off the mark in other ways, including interior quality and powertrain.

However, while other classic models like the Land Rover Defender have barely changed in 70 years, constant development means the Land Cruiser is more like a luxury SUV than a utilitarian 4x4.

That «SAV» moniker not only ensures you know this BMW is different from other mere utility vehicles, but also that the X5 SAV is different from the less utilitarian X6 «Sports Activity Coupe».

Despite the utilitarian nature of the Metris WORKER Cargo Van, it still comes with some features that you won't find standard in many other basic midsize vans.

The Wrangler's interior, on the other hand, isn't as luxurious with loads of hard plastics and a more utilitarian look.

While the regular G - wagen harks from utilitarian roots, the G63 makes a few clear distinctions as the flagship of the line - up, riding on 21 - inch wheels and employing the Panamericana grille familiar from other AMG performance models including the GT R.

For many others, however, the Impala is now recognized more as a utilitarian model, typically seeing service as a rental option, taxi, company car or police cruiser.

The Kodiak 700 is targeted at the utilitarian user ¬ — ranchers, farmers, and other work - related riders.

Where other SUVs try to blend sporty handling and voracious power with their utilitarian ways, the 2015 Lexus RX makes no apologies for what it is: a comfortable everyday cruiser.

The rear, on the other hand, is more on the utilitarian side thanks to the horizontal taillights and the clean design.

The market, at least for the time being, is bifurcating between the luxury models (iPad and, in distant runner - up position, high - end Android tablets), which can do many things well, and utilitarian models (such as Fire, running a modified version of Google's Android, and a number of other, pure - Android devices), which are intended mainly as media - consuming devices.

Do not let our working, utilitarian breeds slip away into uselessness as some other breeds have.

As a result, the definition of the companion animal breed is a breed whose members can not perform any utilitarian function for themselves or their human owners — they're simply too weak to pull their own weight anymore — and they also suffer from a much wider array of painful maladies than their larger cousins; painful and unnatural medical problems like the tendency of certain joints like knees and hips to pop out of their sockets far too easily, among many others.