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.
Not exact matches
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.