Sentences with phrase «other utilitarian purpose»

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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.

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.»

The suspension of meaning through a liminality (threshold) of expectation is of particular relevance to understanding Boursier - Mougenot, since he intends his objects to always remain substantially what they are as objects»» even as their former utilitarian functions have been stripped away, or redirected to other creative ends and purposes.