Sentences with phrase «utilitarian values on»

Such a clarion witness is intolerable to those who want to weaponize medicine to impose secular individualistic and utilitarian values on all of society.

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The implication is this: Though the idea for any emerging technology may be based on purely utilitarian or altruistic motivations — digitally connecting people with the world around them and furthering the enabling of their own personal values — the people and commercial entities funding innovation ultimately have a financial stake.

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.»

While consumers of these types of vehicles are typically believed to have utilitarian priorities, the results showed that social and emotional values, such as the perception of sophistication of design and pride of ownership, had a more significant impact on brand affection than functional values, such as the vehicle's price or gas mileage.

And the IHL concept of proportionality — that attack on a military target is permissible even if there will be civilian casualties as long as the civilian casualties are «proportional» to the military value of the target — is expressly utilitarian and inconsistent with Kant.

Studying 28 years of Turkish history, Kagitcibasi & Ataca [104] found that as socio - economic development increases across time or place, there is less utilitarian / economic value attributed to children and a stronger emphasis on emotional benefits, with a concomitant change in sex preference from boys to girls.