Sentences with phrase «utilitarianism for»

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).

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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.

For though the sphere of culture Itself belongs partly to the realm of truth, beauty and holiness which ultimately has no need to defend itself before the court of utilitarianism, faith and its object transcend even these good things.

Pantheism's error is obvious; anthropocentrism degenerates into utilitarianism by reducing God's creation to nothing more than a tool for satiating man's desires.

Utilitarianism in his versatile usage becomes a synonym for natural law in one place and a description of rational argument in another.

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

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).

Consider, for example, the secular ethic of utilitarianism, which holds that the morally right action is always the one that brings about the greatest possible total happiness.

There is little basis in history for the promise that this religion sincerely followed will bring fullness of life to its adherents in the sense that theological utilitarianism intends.

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.

If there is not much ground in history for the assurances of theological utilitarianism, there seems to be less ground in the structure of the faith itself.

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.

Utilitarianism seems to mark not only the attitude of the political powers that use religion for the sake of social control and transform it to suit their purposes, but also the attitude of many who oppose them.

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.

Unless there really is moral obligation, it will not be a form of natural law, and unless the immediate ground for that obligation is the metaphysical structure that makes a being human, the theory in question will not amount to natural law but an ethics of some other sort, whether divine command, Kantian deontology, utilitarianism, or something else.

The one is committed to community and the ideal of self - sacrifice for the greater good of the commonweal, the other is committed to utilitarianism and to the development of technology for the purpose of instantly gratifying the needs of the individual.

For utilitarianism it meant the freedom to pursue one's own ends.

Mill uses a distinction between «higher» and «lower» pleasures to respond to the criticism that utilitarianism can not account for the moral significance of the differences between human beings and (other) animals.

Mill himself recognized some degree of tension between justice and utility, for the entire final chapter of Utilitarianism is devoted to an attempt to clarify the relationship between the two concepts.

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.

Mary Wollstonecraft and William GodwinMary was one of the founders of the feminist movement - arguing for a future where men and women were treated equally - while Godwin was the founder of philosophical anarchism, or utilitarianism.

I lost that debate and for a while thought utilitarianism itself might be wrong.»

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.

A lesson suitable for GCSE or A-level to introduce John Stuart Mill's development of Jeremy Bentham's concept of Utilitarianism.

A lesson suitable for GCSE or A-level to introduce Jeremy Bentham's Act Utilitarianism.

A medium - term scheme of work covering an introduction to morality and ethics and examining the Utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill in a comprehensive overview, suitable for GCSE or A-level Religious Studies.

The lesson gives a comprehensive introduction to action based Utilitarianism and includes several moral dilemmas for students to apply to the theory.

Of course, you are out of step because simple utilitarianism and acting for the greater good are all the rage these days.

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.

He helped evolve smartphone design beyond mere utilitarianism, and for that he deserves our appreciation.