Sentences with word «utilitarianism»

Mill's defense of utilitarianism in both of the areas discussed is based on appeals to psychological fact.

There is, however, another passage in Utilitarianism where Mill appears to suggest a different criterion of good experience, which is summarized in thesis (4) above.

They emerged out of the Christian denominational - biblical tradition on the one hand and Enlightenment utilitarianism on the other hand.

Titled after a one of the cornerstone principles of utilitarianism as set out by British philosopher John Stuart Mill («To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality»), this show includes works made from primarily industrial or commercial materials.

Volvo, whose mandate is usually driven by utilitarianism over style, has now revealed another un-Volvo like concept in the form of its stylish Concept Estate shooting brake.

Arguments against utilitarianism by other secularists often proceed by showing that the doctrine yields conclusions contrary to our most deeply held moral intuitions.

If we have a non-religious ethical system, such as rule utilitarianism, it will very likely determine that keeping the elderly alive and happy is in the best interest of the greatest happiness, both for the elderly and for the young who will one day be elderly.

Certainly not utilitarianism as most democracies are.

While the common - sense Lockian version was the most pervasive current of American thought has not been fully conscious of these implications, the relation between utilitarianism and Anglo - American social science has been close and continuous from Hobbes and Locke to the classical economists of the 18th and early 19th centuries to the social Darwinists of the late 19th century and finally to such influential present - day.

Why there should be such a development of theological utilitarianism at any time and especially in our time we can readily understand.

Probably the most well known, and the most serious, objection to the classical utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill is the charge that it conflicts with certain fundamental claims of justice or fairness.

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Charles Reynolds, in his article, «Somatic Ethics: Joy and Adventure in the Embodied Moral Life,» is more accurate in claiming that an ethics based on process metaphysics «avoids the beguiling trap of utilitarianism for an ideal participant perspective» (SE 127, my emphasis).

Utilitarianism bases moral decisions on the benefits or costs that decision imposes on people.

At Oxford, where he studied with R. M. Hare, and then as a professor at Melbourne's Monash University, Singer slightly modified his philosophy into what he calls preference utilitarianism.

What she wants above all is to formulate a philosophical and political justification for Dickens» repudiation of Benthamite utilitarianism, and his replacement of it with an imaginative sympathy for others.

One can also easily understand why religious utilitarianism in our time should be dominantly social, since our greatest concern is for the preservation and ordering of a social life that is threatened with anarchy and since our greatest sufferings arise out of our social disorder.

She reviewed all the philosophical possibilities — including utilitarianism, which promotes the «greatest good for the greatest number,» principlism, and virtue theory, which are often taught in medical schools.

It seems as though any attempt to escape arbitrary social rules via utilitarianism eventually runs smack into a set of somewhat biased and arbitrary social rules that must be implemented in order to measure and compare the utility of different groups of people.

Start with the introduction to morality and ethics, followed by Act Utilitarianism and then the Hedonic Calculus.

Scheme of work that covers ethical problems, ethical rules and briefly covers Utilitarianism and some aspects of Kantian Deontology.

Utilitarianism tended therefore to concentrate solely on the rationalization of means, on technical reason.

As Sandel explains it, Kant objected to utilitarianism because it presupposed the invariability of the content of the desire for happiness.

Coleridge, for whom suffering and insight were as inseparable as civilization and its discontents were for Freud, abhorred utilitarianism.

Secular scholars tend toward utilitarianism, the defense of human rights, or accounts of the social contract.

Eric Hoffer would argue that it is not utilitarianism so much as America's penchant for activity that lies behind her preoccupation with work.

The fact that utilitarianism does not involve political or religious convictions, or a list of commandments, appealed to the irreligious Singer, who as a child had refused to have a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.

(ENTIRE BOOK) An examination of the two primary traditions — denominational biblical tradition and enlightenment utilitarianism — that worked together to contribute to the American Revolution and to create the civil religion which marks American culture to this day.

And indeed, the principal target of Hard Times is such an orthodoxy, namely a hard - nosed utilitarianism combined with an unbending liberalism.

Utilitarianism provides us with proper governmental procedure, legitimates our economic system and underwrites the importance of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Muller locates conservatism in an approach that he calls «historical utilitarianism.»

John Stuart Mill English Philosopher and Economist, the Major Exponent of Utilitarianism agnostic; Utilitarian

it teaches utilitarianism and suppresses animism.

A crass utilitarianism has infected bioethics and the practice of medicine.

Leander Keck complains in a similar vein that our churches have replaced «the theocentric praise of God» with an «anthropocentric utilitarianism.»

As it says «the economists» most basic problem is anthropological», in other words the subject is based upon a narrow and restrictive concept of rationality which ignores the richness of human relations in favour of an obsolete utilitarianism.

The usual formulations of utilitarianism assume an individualism that in principle works against the common good.

Here is the point: such an argument against utilitarianism stakes everything on a pre-philosophical intuition about the heinousness of murder.

Meanwhile, a strict utilitarianism tells us citizenship is a construct designed to secure «rents.»