They will claim that an ideal public should at least consider utilitarianism a plausible doctrine. From LearnThat.org.
It's one thing to show that utilitarianism is not good. From Wordnik.com. [Trolleyology and morals] Reference
I learned that utilitarianism is a kind of consequentialism. From Wordnik.com. [Angie McQuaig: How To Hyper-Personalize Education] Reference
Such theories are sometimes described as a utilitarianism of rights. From Wordnik.com. [Consequentialism] Reference
Step two is: show that utilitarianism is not defeated by objections. From Wordnik.com. [Happiness Will Only Happen When It Can] Reference
And, yes, I know that utilitarianism is not the end all, be all of philosphical morality. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Racism and the Death Penalty] Reference
Recently, my interest in utilitarianism was piqued by a conversation with a philosopher friend, so I took to the web. From Wordnik.com. [Angie McQuaig: How To Hyper-Personalize Education] Reference
In strictly efficiency-oriented terms utilitarianism, the big businesses have taken over the territory of the smaller ones. From Wordnik.com. [Starbucks illustrates the weakness of global economy] Reference
44 minutes ago, -0 / +1Poor use of the word utilitarianism in article. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
It is, however, inconvenient to stretch the term, "utilitarianism" in this fashion. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Eventually, such destruction threatens the nation, as a whole if that is the kind of utilitarianism at work. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Prosecuting BP] Reference
The same kind of utilitarianism affects how we approach the biggest external threat to our civilization: Islamic militancy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
This is a feature, though, that Kant's theory shares with theories that differ significantly from his (such as utilitarianism). From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
GOLDBERG: More utilitarianism from the New Republic. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 12, 2002] Reference
Or perhaps it's merely a kind of cultural utilitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Sith-Boom-Bah!] Reference
It is nothing but utilitarianism, pure and simple, after all. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
Such moral utilitarianism is felt everywhere in the Middle Kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Doctoroff: Tang Jun's Drama: A Chinese Business Tragedy] Reference
An oasis of breezy modernity in an expanse of brick utilitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [New York Gets Its Gehry] Reference
This egoism also translates into a sort of big-ticket utilitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Abrams: Bonds -- In and Outta This World] Reference
We have seen that John Stuart Mill made much of the distinction in his utilitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Did not a critical utilitarianism resolve itself into the doctrine of the Rational Social. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The perforations of the edge of the paper are hinting at utilitarianism or the 'every day'. From Wordnik.com. [Amy Bernays: Time to be a Mom] Reference
It is possible to hold to a utilitarianism more circumspect and less startling than Bentham's. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
French masculine taste, as its criterion, has established the excellent doctrine of utilitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
Against utilitarianism as an ethical theory various objections have been brought or may be brought. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
It is worth while to summarize what may be said for utilitarianism, and what may be said against it. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
We thus find that there is a deep truth in utilitarianism, after all -- the rose-color romancings of chameleon writers. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Charles Dickens 'Hard Times increased sales of his lagging periodical Household Word by railing against utilitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Marilia Duffles: Brazil's Charmingly Un-PC President] Reference
His fundamental principle may be described as rational utilitarianism, and in many ways it resembles that of Cumberland. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
For that reason, act utilitarianism has long been discredited in ethics texts in favor of what's called "rule utilitarianism". From Wordnik.com. [Coleen Rowley: Gonna Reap Just What You Sow] Reference
Other exploitative human activity based in utilitarianism is not crass or all so obviously wrong, especially in today's context. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior] Reference
The economic concept of value provides the foundation for neoclassical welfare economics, which has its roots in utilitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Total economic value] Reference
At that point thinkers like Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill developed the western secular philosophy we call utilitarianism. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Hirshman: Liberal Principles II: People Are Political Animals] Reference
These are indeed great and praiseworthy efforts, in which utilitarianism has assumed a new character, and found a new field of action. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
The defects in Mill's argument have made themselves apparent, not merely to the opponents of utilitarianism, but even to its advocates. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
In utilitarianism, people are understood not as all different and separate but as similar and equal, capable of feeling pleasure and pain. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Hirshman: Liberal Principles II: People Are Political Animals] Reference
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