Sentences with phrase «utilitarian arguments»

There are strong utilitarian arguments too for abolishing IHT.

The ecomodernists recognize that their case for preserving nature by decoupling human activity from environmental impacts «draws more on spiritual or aesthetic than on material or utilitarian arguments,» since we «could survive and prosper materially on a planet with much less biodiversity and wild nature.»

Three very different, unrealistic, artificial scenarios or course, but I just toss them out to show that there seems to be a point at which one's emotional response overrides most logical utilitarian arguments.

But at least he knows — if I read him correctly — that religious communities must stop using utilitarian arguments to buttress their public appeals.

The moral argument transcends the utilitarian argument.

It's the Utilitarian argument just as Dinesh D'Souza does all the time.

That responsibility, they contend, goes beyond any utilitarian argument.

Not exact matches

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.

Mark's argument is utilitarian, Matthew's equalitarian, and Luke's humanitarian.

He concedes that «from a utilitarian view, the argument [he opposes] is unassailable.»

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

To help, I started labeling significant portions of my story with unsexy and utilitarian titles like, «Argument about green vs. black tea» and «Weird surveillance grocery store encounter.»

There is an argument for utilitarian calculations such as these, but they are arguments that sit uncomfortably with libertarianism, a point well made by analysts elsewhere at the Cato Institute.

This though remains an argument on Morton's terms: a largely utilitarian assessment of net costs and benefits.