Sentences with phrase «utilitarian principles»

Similarly, people were strongly opposed to the idea of the government regulating driverless cars to ensure they would be programmed with utilitarian principles.

Thus, utilitarian moral principles most closely correspond to the basic structure of reality as posited by his metaphysical system Since ultimate value in Hartshorne's view is achieved in the divine experience, human beings are morally bound to contribute to that experience by acting according to utilitarian principles.

In these cases, the grossly unfair practices of slavery and the killing of the innocent, although they seem intrinsically reprehensible, would be obligatory according to utilitarian principles.

The difference between the two, Moskop contends, is that each adopts a different manner in justifying the utilitarian principle.

Moskop maintains that both Mill and Hartshorne «acknowledge the utilitarian principle that morality consists in the production of the best experience for the greatest number» (MH 24).

The third is the utilitarian principle of the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

This is the utilitarian principle at its evangelical best: evaluating and explaining learning and the arts in terms of their personal usefulness, in particular, in terms of what they do for an individual's personal piety.

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Twelve years later, this «beau ideal»» known to philosophers as the utilitarian harm principle» found its way into the majority opinion in Lawrence.

Basic differences between Mill and Hartshorne are to be found, not in their principles of morality, but in the reasons each offers for accepting a utilitarian moral theory.

Adhering to Kant and the utilitarian philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, modern ethics aspires to principles of universal scope and cogent force.

In it, this concept assumes the practical - utilitarian value of wanting to believe that before certain abstract ideas or principles there is a correspondence with reality.

«Drawing upon the Cubo - futurist, Constructivist and Suprematist design principles of his native Russia as well as the utilitarian pragmatism of the German Bauhaus, Kozyrev juxtaposes these modernist tropes with a Vermeer - like Dutch interior or the depiction of a ruined bunker in Finland, exploding the images» contextual logic into a postmodern pastiche of historical culture.

Even though bathrooms are utilitarian, they still benefit from the basic decorating principles applied to the rest of the house.