Sentences with phrase «with utilitarian values»

If you're not looking for sex appeal in your smart home a home thermostat and are more concerned with utilitarian values, the Sensi is a worthwhile bargain.

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Earth is to be treated with respect, quite aside from any utilitarian value it might have for us.

In the traditional understanding, Nature was looked upon with a utilitarian perspective without consideration for its intrinsic value.

««Values» brought with it the assumptions that all moral ideas are subjective and relative, that they are mere customs and conventions, that they have a purely instrumental, utilitarian purpose, and that they are peculiar to specific individuals and societies.»

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.

These media are relatively efficient and effective, and while they are limited in their scope, they permit the churches to use them in ways which are in keeping with religious values rather than simply meeting the utilitarian demands of the new technology.

In this utilitarian regard, care for animals is economically driven with the value of the animal as the key determinant to the level of care given to the animal.

Georgetti synthesizes these supposed opposites by combining the utilitarian and decorative tendencies that underpin the generic conception of the word «folk» with the non-representational and non-functional attributes that we often associate with «modern» by painting geometric abstractions with use value.

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.

In aiming to combine vanity with pragmatism, Aujla uses materials that are made for utilitarian function but which also have aesthetic value.

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.