Sentences with phrase «utilitarianism as»

A dirty sock is cast in plaster — taking away its utilitarianism as well as its soft and fluffy comfort.

The script that Billy Ray has adapted from the Argentine original appears to be re-freshened to take a look at morality and utilitarianism as it pertains to a post-9 / 11 world.

Certainly not utilitarianism as most democracies are.

Not exact matches

MacIntyre takes the unity of liberalism, laissez - faire capitalism, Marxism, and utilitarianism not just as proof for his science - fiction metaphor, but also as a pointer to the teleological alternative that is, he believes, the only solution left.

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

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

Utilitarianism is often thought of as the paradigmatic secular moral theory....

The coming - apart of unholy alliances, such as that between utilitarianism and biblical religion, could lead to some new imaginative visions, some alternatives to the ever - increasing dominance of governmental and corporate bureaucracy into which we have fallen.

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.

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.

In terms of my account thus far, one might classify Whitehead's ethics as a modified Benthamite 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.

When one realizes how different Hartshorne's ethics is from that found in deontology as usually conceived, and when one notices his numerous and repeated criticisms of utilitarianism, 10 one is then in a position to see how he culls insights from both of these in the effort to develop his own virtue ethics centered around the law of moderation.

The stakes are very high here, for Sandel accepts as proven the deontological case against utilitarianism.

In this effort I hope to show that Hartshorne's thought is an improvement with respect to some of the weaker features of virtue ethics as it has been defended by some recent philosophers, in particular regarding the allegation made by virtue ethnicians that deontology and utilitarianism are defective because they depend on abstract rules.

The last two decades have witnessed a rebirth of interest in the virtues, an interest which, at a minimum, acts as a supplement to the familiar alternatives of deontology and utilitarianism, and, at a maximum, acts as a substitute for deontology and utilitarianism.1 1 will not be defending the maximal thesis in this article, as some in the virtue ethics «movement» have done (e.g., Alasdair MacIntyre and Philippa Foot2).

The utilitarianism of an individualistic period, which promised men that through faith they might gain the economic virtues and wealth, differs from the pragmatism of our social climate of opinion, in which religion is used as a means for gaining social order and prosperity; but they are both utilitarian and equally remote from the love of God for his own sake and of the individual or social neighbor in his relation to God.

Above all, this means a change in the meaning of work, a lessening of its pure utilitarianism, a recovery of the idea of work as a calling.

Although that might appear to be a conclusion of mere practical reason, first reached by the so - called Enlightenment, there is also a case to be made for it in terms of biblical Christianity as well as «natural law» or secular utilitarianism.

Although many concur in categorizing any ethical system based on process metaphysics as teleological or consequentialist, recent writings have gone beyond this, attempting to demonstrate the affinity between process ethics and utilitarianism.

Under the rising criticism of utilitarianism, first in the late 18th century and then with ever greater insistence in the 19th and 20th centuries, freedom came to mean freedom to pursue self - interest, latterly defined as «freedom to do your own thing.»

The complex of capitalism, utilitarianism, and science as a cultural form has its own world view, its own «religion» even — though it is an adamantly this - worldly one — and its own utopianism: the utopianism of total technical control, of course in the service of the «freedom» of individual self - interest.

As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectatoAs between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectatoas strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectatoas a disinterested and benevolent spectator.

There Mill argues that the primary source of utilitarianism's strength as a guide to action (its «ultimate sanction») is to be found in «the social feelings of mankind — the desire to be in unity with our fellow creatures» (U 40).

As Fr Dylan James brings out later in this issue, the justification of «human rights» today is less and less grounded on the objective nature of Man and more and more on the shifting sands of utilitarianism.

Fellow Conservative John Hayes was just as complimentary, praising the United States» 44th president for his commitment to the «politics of hope» rather than the «dull utilitarianism» commonplace to politics.

This system is also known as «utilitarianism».

Again, they looked at the results using two social objectives: increasing the number of people who are happy, which they call «total utilitarianism,» or increasing the average happiness of people, known as «average utilitarianism.»

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.

And I guess I'm «biast» because, in the battle between deontology and utilitarianism, I find the latter much more convincing — and I absolutely hate to see it as misrepresented as it is here in Thanos.

Introduces «Rule Utilitarianism» as well as the notions of higher and lower pleasure and allows students to compare the «Principle of Utility» with the «Greatest Happiness Principle».

The aim of this module is to: - Introduce utilitarianism and deontology to students - Foster debates about the nature of morality as well as specific moral issues.

As the last stylistic holdout of Land Rover's rectilinear school of design that defined its previous - generation models, the old LR4 stood out thanks to its upright utilitarianism, a style that somehow managed to be both honest and premium.

Unfortunately, this essay in fact discusses only one part of utilitarianism or Benthamism as a complete system of thought or doctrine — and chooses to discuss (both defend and revise or amend) that part in which the system is weakest and least useful.

Going back to Utilitarianism, I often tell authors it's OK to buy cheap reviews on Fiverr.com as long as you ask them to be honest and balanced (not gushing).

In the book, Rawls uses decision theory as a framework for marrying utilitarianism (ends) and Kantianism (not means but principles governing means).

As for my assertion that rehabilitation is a primary objective of our justice system: the primary support for this proposition is one of basic utilitarianism.

Its utilitarianism is an advantage in a few ways: it's more comfortable to wear, as the built - in rubber strap is more flexible and arguably looks better on the wrist.